Linda Thompson Talks, Journalists Listen....

At the new Bowery Hotel last night, the thrilling singer Linda Thompson spoke to an audience of several dozen journalists about her stunner Versatile Heart (August 14), in a Q&A conducted by noted music writer Anthony DeCurtis. Besides a major contingent of Rounder Records staff down from Boston, the crowd included top media personalities -- bloggers from New York must-reads Stereogum and the Gothamist, to staff from respected print outlets like Relix, Entertainment Weekly, NY Daily News and NY Times, to radio producers and hosts from tastemakers WNYC, WFMU, NPR and Sirius, among others. Here's Thompson with New York's top country songstress Laura Cantrell. (Not shown is the detail on Thompson's ultra snazzy sunglasses, a set of silver Skull and Bones on the ear pieces. Just reminded me that she's still cooler than most of us will ever be.)


Shore Fire staffer Carrie Tolles with interviewer Anthony DeCurtis.


Tolles-about-town with Rounder's head of PR Jen Sacca.


and the bonus shot, Laura Cantrell and hubby/Sirius Radio's Jeremy Tepper's beautiful one year old Isabella.