Chris Thompson

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1973 cover of the self titled "Chris Thompson" album

Christopher Malcolm Thompson is a very experienced and professional Folk/Blues/Country singer/songwriter from Raglan, whose musical heroes are musicians like Bert Jansch and Townes van Zandt. Chris has made many records and has recorded with N.Z. musicians like Brendan Power, Dave McArtney, Frank Gibson, Chris Parfitt, Martin Hope, Chris Priestley,and Tom Ludvigson; and with Hamilton/Raglan musicians like Emit Snake-Beings,The Wild Allegations,Dave Maybee,The Dirt Band, Stan Jagger,Tim Armstrong and the Monday Club, and The Great Brain Robbers. Chris Thompson started out in the Kon-Tiki Folk Club in Hamilton in 1965, then turned professional in 1968. In the early seventies, he moved to England where played guitar in the band of Californian folk singer Julie Felix. . While in England Chris played with British Folk-Blues legends Wizz Jones and Davey Graham and in 1973 made his first album which is recognised internationally as an underground classic. In New Zealand in 1974 Chris toured with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; and he maintained a lifelong friendship with Brownie, for whom he wrote a song ("Letter to Brownie"), which was videoed by TVNZ. In 1984, Chris toured N.Z.with Stevie Ray Vaughan,opening the show in a major nationwide concert tour. Chris Thompson has had three albums reach the finals of the N.Z. Music Industry awards, and has had his songs recorded by New Zealand artists Mike Harding,The Big Muffin Serious Band, Jimmy Young and James Wilkinson, Chris Priestley, and in America, by Meg Baird of the Philadelphia neo-folk group The Espers. In England The Straw Bear Band and Ben Thistle have recorded Chris' songs. Recently (and again, in America ) Chris' song Where is my Wild Rose? has been recorded by Robin Pecknold of The Fleet Foxes. Within the last few weeks, Little Ballerina a song Chris wrote for his daughter Lora(who plays in the Hamilton band Cheshire Grimm) has been covered by Willard Ribeiro a singer from Brazil.

Releases

Chris Thompson (Anthology) cover art

as Chris and Lynne Thompson:


Compilations:

External Links

White Sapphire cover

Internet

Videos on Youtube:


This Chris Thompson should not be confused with Chris Thompson, the vocalist from Manfred Mann, who also spent time in Hamilton, including attending Hamilton Boys High School.