Author: MartinWisse
"I was 25," she says. "I'd go for my mouth and nothing would come out. It started when I was pregnant with my eldest daughter, and I just put it down to the pregnancy, but it wasn't a happy time in my life. I think my then-husband wasn't that keen on having a baby, blah blah blah, it was a difficult time, which we got through, but I think it impacted on me a bit."
Folk legend Linda Thompson has been suffering from dysphonia since the early seventies, making it harder and harder for her to record new albums. For her latest, she got other people to sing her songs, called it Proxy Music and recreated the album cover from Roxy Music's eponymous debut. Alexis Petridis interviews her for The Guardian on the album and her personal history in folk.