Mick Hartley

It's not easy to find decent YouTube videos of Linda Thompson. She has a wonderful voice, as you can hear from her recorded material, but she always seems ill at ease and forced on live recordings. Probably that's because most of them come from the period in the early Eighties when she and Richard Thompson were acrimoniously splitting up:

Simon Nicol described the final tour, in the summer of 1982, as "like walking on a tightrope", and that as a result the first thing he did on stage was "look for the exit". The couple were barely speaking to each other, and Linda would occasionally try and trip Richard up as he walked on stage.

But some new videos have recently been posted, and this, I think, captures her very well:

After they split up she couldn't sing for a couple of years as a result of hysterical dysphonia, but went on to record the solo album "One Clear Moment" in 1985, with the classic "Telling Me Lies":

You don't know what a chance is
Until you have to seize one.
You don't know what a man is
Until you have to please one.

No YouTube of Linda singing that, unfortunately, but here's Linda Ronstadt backed by Emmylou Harris doing a live version.