Joe Thompson has been played on NTS in shows including Reimagining Country w/ Jamal Khadar, featured first on 24 July 2023. Songs played include Soldier's Joy and Molly Put The Kettle On.

Joe Thompson (Joseph Aquilla Thompson, December 9, 1918 - February 20, 2012) was an American old-time fiddler from North Carolina.

Although his music-making has not been systematically documented, Thompson made a number of recordings in the later part of his life. In 1989 Joe and Odell Thompson recorded "Old-Time Music from the Carolina Piedmont" for the Global Village Music label. Thompson's performances are included on the Smithsonian Institution anthologies "Black Banjo Songsters of North…