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Some singers are born with it: a teardrop in their voice that grabs you by the heart and refuses to let go. Tammy Wynette had it; just <\/span>listen to her mourn<\/span> how \u201cthe sun will never shine in Apartment #9\u201d and your ear will catch the throb in her throat that echoes the song\u2019s steel guitar. Roy Orbison singing \u201c<\/span>In Dreams<\/span>,\u201d Sam Cooke praising divine healing on \u201c<\/span>Touch the Hem of His Garment<\/span>,\u201d Emmylou Harris grieving Gram Parsons on \u201c<\/span>Sweet Chariot<\/span>\u201d \u2014 all of them have it too, the quiver that can\u2019t be taught, only expressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Teddy Thompson possesses one of those voices, a golden, vivid instrument capable of conjuring joy \u2014\u00a0though not in excess; he\u2019s English\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and caverns of heartache. The quality, he says over a bottle of San Pellegrino at a coffee shop in Brooklyn\u2019s Bedford-Stuyvesant on a sunny April afternoon, is \u201csubconscious.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He credits it to his love of classic country, which he discovered while growing up in London as a child in the early 1980s, and \u201csomething a little bit intangible. It\u2019s not really something you can put your finger on. There\u2019s just a little bit of sadness in [those voices].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson would know. He\u2019s clearly an old soul, keenly intelligent, cheeky and sensitive. As a child, he remembers being \u201calways worried,\u201d even though \u201cnothing was happening to me that was particularly different than any other kids, but I certainly seemed to feel it more and took it harder.\u201d That disposition lurks behind his piercing hazel-green eyes, which seem to absorb every detail of the small coffeeshop and our fellow patrons, and it\u2019s at the heart of how he moves through the world. It has also become his signature as a songwriter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson has been plumbing those emotional depths in his songs for nearly 26 years across seven critically acclaimed solo albums, and he\u2019s back at it with his latest \u2014 and finest: \u201cNever Be the Same,\u201d which releases May 15. Easily one of the year\u2019s best albums, it serves up a delicious aural stew flavored by the musical genres that have long been among Thompson\u2019s primary ingredients: late-1950s rock, classic pop-country and the golden age of soul. \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d captures him reaching new artistic heights in a career that has been at turns fulfilling and frustrating.<\/span><\/p>\n

By any objective measure, Teddy Thompson should be a household name. As the son of famed English folk singer-songwriters Richard and Linda Thompson, he has a musical pedigree \u2014 and gifts that are wholly his own. He is a \u201cquintuple threat,\u201d in the words of Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, whose album \u201cNot Dark Yet\u201d (recorded with her sister, Grammy Award-winner Shelby Lynne) Thompson produced. Moorer says that \u201che excels as a singer, songwriter, player, harmony singer and producer.\u201d His ability to craft emotionally resonant and lyrically clever songs places him among the best writers working today, and his albums \u2014 beginning with his first, released by Virgin Records in 2000 \u2014 are, without exception, gems. And then there is his voice \u2014 perhaps at its most ravishing on \u201cTake Care of Yourself,\u201d a ballad from his 2011 album \u201cBella\u201d <\/span>\u2014 at once fierce and tender, colored by longing and loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps, like Jeff Buckley before him, Thompson is simply too good for us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For all those gifts, Thompson has often been swallowed up by an industry that, with rare exception, no longer gives artists a long runway to find their following, and a crowded marketplace that has come to prize treacly confections over savory artists who are built to last. Grammy-winner David Mansfield, who produced \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d and Thompson\u2019s two albums of country covers, also theorizes that, to his credit, Thompson \u201cdoesn\u2019t have the killer cutthroat ambition that some artists have [and] knows enough about truly great music of the past to be humbled by it.\u201d Whatever the case, the fact that he continues to struggle to break through while many far lesser talents succeed says something about both the industry and our culture at large. Perhaps, like Jeff Buckley before him, Thompson is simply too good for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

When our conversation strays into this territory, he turns blunt. \u201cLet me tell you something: The music is not enough,\u201d he says in reference to competing in today\u2019s overly saturated musical landscape. He tells younger singers who turn to him for advice to \u201ccome up with a gimmick\u201d that will make them stand out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d arrives at a moment when Thompson\u2019s penchant for crafting songs that carry a late-\u201950s structural DNA could serve him well. Stephen Sanchez\u2019s \u201c<\/span>Until I Found You<\/span>,\u201d an earwormy pastiche inspired by the decade\u2019s sweet balladry, became an international sensation in 2023 that scored nominations for Billboard and MTV music awards, and his retro-flavored album \u201cAngel Face\u201d garnered critical buzz. More recently, artists including <\/span>Laufey<\/span> and <\/span>Elliot James Reay<\/span> have also leaned into the era\u2019s sensibility and soundscape, while perennial favorites Scott Bradlee\u2019s Postmodern Jukebox often reimagine modern hits in a vintage style.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson recorded \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d with Mansfield \u201cslowly\u201d between gigs, the producer says, over the course of a year at a studio in Weehawken, New Jersey. Among his aims, with Mansfield at the helm, was to make room for what he calls the \u201cdevastating moment,\u201d a point in a song where something unexpected can happen \u201con the instrument, on guitar or fiddle or pedal steel . . . that one lick where you just melt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those comes on \u201c<\/span>So This Is Heartache<\/span>,\u201d the album\u2019s languid, slow-burning first single that features Thompson\u2019s lonesome tenor and falsetto describing how \u201cthe one girl became my world, and now she\u2019s gone for good this time.\u201d But the true devastation comes in an instrumental just after the bridge. The Hammond B3 swells on the verse\u2019s first pass, sticking close to the song\u2019s melody, but on the second, it jumps an octave in an improvisation that nearly scorches the ear.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNever Be the Same\u201d includes many moments like this that lull the listener into losing track of place and time with songs grounded in emotion and meaning. One of these is \u201cI Need Real (Love),\u201d a muscular, guitar-driven confession that, \u201cwhilst terrified by what I might feel,\u201d the singer still needs something real.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That lyric illustrates one of Thompson\u2019s greatest musical gifts as a songwriter: the ability (and willingness) to be vulnerable and turn his pen on himself in caustic, revealing ways. It\u2019s partly what led the New York Times in 2011 to <\/span>dub him<\/span> \u201cone of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation.\u201d But \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d finds Thompson operating at an even higher level of craft than he has in the past, something that was by design. He cops to having \u201cput some filler\u201d in the occasional second verse \u2014\u00a0always a challenge for songwriters \u2014 over the years and how, having just turned 50, he is pushing himself to elevate his writing and \u201cmake it as good as it can be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On \u201cNever Be the Same,\u201d Thompson confronts his resistance to change, whether it be during a relationship or in its aftermath. As he sings on \u201cCome Back,\u201d the album\u2019s plaintive opener, \u201cI had a really strange reaction, delayed I think by simple fear, if I don\u2019t listen I can\u2019t hear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lyrics like that, he says, represent \u201cmy work [and] my fight. Left to my own devices, [I\u2019d do] the same thing over and over again.\u201d Take his breakfast, which \u201chas been the same for about five years,\u201d he laughs. \u201cI have three scrambled eggs, and I have an English muffin [with] marmalade on one side and then something else on the other, like maybe a jam.\u201d Routine, he says, makes him feel safe, but it\u2019s something he is pushing against on this album, so much that he titled it after a phrase he realized he had used in two songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can become a problem for me, just like anybody. For me, not being the same is something important, isn\u2019t it \u2014\u00a0something to remember,\u201d Thompson says. \u201c[To] try and grow and change and be different and get out of your comfort zone a bit, maybe just with cereal one day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those moments came in writing the track \u201cI Remember,\u201d which recounts his childhood in London spent with his maternal grandmother, Betty Pettifer, when his parents were touring and after their divorce. The song represented \u201ca slightly different style of writing\u201d for Thompson that required him to do \u201ca bit more reaching back\u201d into the past for details and felt memory. \u201c\u2018What can I see?\u2019\u201d he remembers asking himself during the writing process, \u201cbecause you\u2019re trying to tell a story, or you\u2019re trying to speak about somebody, but you need some specifics \u2014 and they need to be real.\u201d He has been studying his empty glass while he\u2019s reflecting, but then he looks at me intently to emphasize his point. \u201cIt sounds so fatuous, but it needs to be a real thing. And if it\u2019s not, people will know it. You can\u2019t lie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson says he \u201ctried the hardest\u201d on that song, and the result was his favorite line on the entire album \u2014\u00a0his description of his grandma\u2019s \u201cpale, rock pool eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had to really dig to find it,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u2019s exactly what her eyes looked like. I was so happy when I came up with that, and so proud, mostly because I\u2019m so emotional about my grandma, because she would be proud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This devotion to authenticity is one of Thompson\u2019s cornerstones. He remembers his outrage as a child watching Britain\u2019s \u201cTop of the Pops\u201d and realizing that pop artists like Madonna and Bananarama were lip-syncing in their performances. \u201cI remember my feeling of \u2018That\u2019s not fair!\u2019\u201d he laughs. \u201c\u2018She\u2019s not singing! You\u2019re not allowed to do that!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you\u2019re a singer, you need to be able to sing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For him, it\u2019s pretty basic: \u201cIf you\u2019re a singer, you need to be able to sing. I\u2019m not saying that you have to have a perfect voice. You just need to be able to put it across.\u201d Earlier, Thompson had referenced old-school studio tricks that shored up shaky vocals, but now it\u2019s clear he\u2019s talking about contemporary smoke and mirrors: \u201cYou need to actually [make] art without intervention. And then we can take it or leave it there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Thompson is offering on \u201cNever Be the Same\u201d: no magic tricks or sleights of hand, but songs that listeners will feel and live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But first he has to get them to pay attention. Thompson has a wealth of devoted fans \u2014 and they are Teddy stans. But \u201cthe hardest thing for people like me,\u201d he says, \u201cis getting new fans. Industry wide, everybody\u2019s asking themselves that question. Every artist, every manager, every publicist is like, \u2018Yeah, you\u2019ve got your fans. How do you get some new ones? How can we do that?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson shakes his head. \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult, so I don\u2019t know. I just hope for the best. I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much I can do except be myself at this point.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This sense of his musical self is what sets Thompson apart \u2014\u00a0and defines his craft. \u201cHis knowledge and love for the bygone days of great songwriting and performing [is] unusual for someone his age,\u201d Mansfield says. \u201cHe brings that into his work with a modern sensibility. And he isn\u2019t afraid to write a song that\u2019s under three minutes! He has a lot of chops; great range, tone and lots of control . . . there\u2019s some sort of vulnerability that comes through in his singing that really moves listeners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As we leave the coffee shop and walk through Bed-Stuy, I think of an old Rodgers and Hart song. Written for \u201cThe Boys of Summer,\u201d a Broadway musical that debuted in 1938, it was recorded by artists like Mel Torm\u00e9, Helen Humes and, most famously, The Mamas and the Papas. \u201cSing for your supper and you\u2019ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,\u201d the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: \u201cIf their song is sweet to hear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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These days, Thompson\u2019s music is among the sweetest.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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