He worked with Little Joe Blue, John Lee Hooker, Lowell Fulson, Etta James and Big Mama Thornton.

[2] In the early 1970s, Thompson played backing to Little Joe Blue, and worked solo and as a sideman in San Francisco Bay Area clubs.

Thompson also found employment where he separately worked with Lowell Fulson, Etta James and Big Mama Thornton.

Thompson's second album Resister Twister was released in 1987 and was nominated for a Grammy Award,[3] plus 1990's Just Like a Devil, was taken from his work on Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party radio show.

[3] Thompson died in Hayward, California on February 15, 2020, at the age of 66, due to complications from diabetes.