Richard Thompson at World Financial Center

Last night I saw Richard Thompson play a solo show as part of the River to River Festival at the World Financial Center. He was amazing. I've never seen anybody play the guitar like that. He sang some classics, some new songs including, a great rocking kid's song about ancient Egypt, and a blues song about loving really smart women. But he also sang a haunting song that he said was about fundamentalism called Outside on the Inside that has a chorus  about "a message on the wind". The fact that he sang it right in front of a glass courtyard that was shattered by 9/11 was very powerful.