When Linda Thompson retired from music, she left listeners assuming they'd never hear from her again. But proving "you can't keep a good woman down," Linda returns in grand style on Fashionably Late, her first new album in 17 years. This remarkable comeback includes guest appearances by Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy, Van Dyke Parks, and Danny Thompson. Fashionably Late also features, for the first time in 20 years, a musical reunion between Linda and Richard Thompson.

With her marriage to Richard Thompson and the release of I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, Linda's name became linked inextricably to her husband's. She was keenly aware of the reverence for his previous muse, Sandy Denny - a reverence she shared - and that gossip held that anyone could shine given the great Richard Thompson's songs to sing. But the truth was - and is - that she possesses a remarkable instrument. Certainly her husband knew the spell she could cast and wrote a trove of darkly dramatic songs for her: "Withered and Died," "Dimming of the Day," Walking on a Wire," "For Shame of Doing Wrong," "A Heart Needs a Home." She sang them all into the folk-rock lexicon with grace and authority.