Teddy Thompson’s latest stop – and eighth album – in a career that has carried on the legacy of his parents, British folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson, and found him collaborating with such artists as Rufus Wainwright, Rosanne Cash and Emmylou Harris, “My Love Of Country” follows 2020’s “Heartbreaker Please,” called “buoyant, brilliant and soulful” by Billboard Magazine.

Over a 6-album body of work, Teddy Thompson has carved out his own music path, drawing inspiration from his familial British folk roots, and American folk, soul, country, pop,and rock– and he’s headed to Cape Cinema on Thursday, May 9 for a Payomet Road Show.

“Country music has been inescapable for me, a recurring theme,” says Teddy Thompson. “At the age of 10 or 11, that’s the first thing I heard where my ears pricked up and I’m like, ‘Oh, this is music? I like this.’”

The simplicity and emotional intensity of classic country – à la Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and George Jones – has been a big part of Thompson’s own sound as an artist, which the New York Times called “beautifully finessed” and NPR hailed as “the musical equivalent of an arrow to the heart.”