This is a deceptively easy query: What makes "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" such an unimaginable tune? My relationship with Richard Thompson's most-popular tune has all the time been an uneasy one. I find it irresistible, however I do not know why. On a passive pay attention, it looks as if a reasonably vapid, melodramatic love ballad. In a phrase, it is tacky. But I can not hearken to...