Linda Thompson

NPR

Published August 4, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Rick Karr profiles singer Linda Thompson. Her CD Fashionably Late (Rounder Records) marks her return to recording after more than a decade silenced by a condition known as hysterical dysphonia.

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