Product Description

Live recording of a concert by former husband and wife folkcombo Richard & Linda Thompson. A perfect showcase of the intensity that the duo often displayed live, the combination of Richard's intricately woven melodies and Linda's strong, husky vocal stylings. Includes the tracks 'Hard Luck Stories', 'Heart Needs A Home' and 'Now Be Thankful'.

Track Listing

1. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
2. Hard Luck Stories
3. Night Comes In
4. Morris Medley
5. A Heart Needs A Home
6. Why Don't You Love Me
7. Now Be Thankful
8. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
9. Streets Of Paradise
10. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
11. Calvary Cross
12. Hokey Pokey
13. Things You Gave Me
14. It'll Be Me
15. Together Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5553 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

A fine folk-rock peiod piece
Folk-rock with greater emphasis on the rock than the folk, In Concert November 1975 was finally released in 2007 and is a fine live recording and period piece. It features a complete live show recorded at three venues and finds Richard and Linda Thompson in excellent form. Linda's powerful vocals contrast superbly with her then husband's lower harmonies. RT is also on excellent form on electric guitar turning even a relatively minor piece such as the Thompsons' cover of Hank Williams' Why Don't You Love Me into a necessary download with his spiky six-string work.

Highlights of the album range from the strident folk pop of Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair to A Heart Needs A Home which is simply one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. The decadence of the early 70s is also apparent in the words of the excellent Streets Of Paradise as well, to a lesser extent, in Richard and Linda's signature tune I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Another pre-punk period piece is the inclusion of the long song with three tracks running at over eight minutes.

The Thompsons are backed on In Concert by the heavily-in-demand Fairport Convention rhythm section of Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks as well as John Kirkpatrick on anglo concertina and accordion. Like most Fairport-related live albums, the whole LP is too much to take in on one sitting but, with such catchy choruses and excellent playing, is well worth persisting with. All in all, a very good addition and souvenir of the golden period of the English folk-rock genre.

I was there
Just to fill in the blanks ... us lucky folk living in London back
then were treated to Sandy Denny joining them on stage at The Queen Elizabeth Hall leg of the tour .... and it was wonderfull !!
Why no tape of this gig ??

Was that magic night really that long ago?
Ah, it only seems like a few years since I was in the audience in Norwich, marvelling at Richard Thompson's magic fretwork and Linda's peerless singing. My cassette recording of the concert has long since passed to dust, but now it's available on a CD at last. Richard and Linda were in their pomp, backed by John Kirkpatrick (the best, or maybe only squeezebox artiste of the time), and old Fairport chums Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks. Where was Danny Thompson? In the bar, probably.

If you weren't there, but have heard your dear old dad, or maybe grandad, say how great the Thompsons were, then have a listen to this. In those days, Richard and Linda were still speaking to one another, and Teddy Thompson was still waiting to be born. I thought Richard was the greatest guitarist in the world (and still do).

The recording quality is fantastic, and sounds better than my fading memory of actually being there. How do they do that? For me, the highlights are Linda's pure, clear voice on "A Heart needs a Home", and the Fairport standard "Now be Thankful". From Richard, the guitar playing on "Calvary Cross" is worth the price of the CD on its own.

This live compilation is truly stunning, and if you remember them, buy it now. If you don't remember them, buy it anyway. You'll love it.