“I never thought his music would be my bag. But he never plays the same thing twice and your mind is blown”: The Pretenders’ James Walbourne on discovering Richard Thompson (who happens to be his father-in-law)

James Walbourne and Richard Thompson.

Richard Thompson’s quality songwriting and stellar musicianship opened a whole new world for The Pretenders and His Lordship guitarist James Walbourne, as he tells Prog.

“He’s my father-in-law, but that’s by the by. His was one of those names that always kept cropping up but I never thought his music would be my bag at all when I was growing up.