In Concert, November 1975 (Richard & Linda Thompson album)
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In Concert, November 1975 is a live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Richard and Linda Thompson.

The album is compiled from recordings made during the Thompsons late 1975 tour to promote their Pour Down Like Silver
Pour Down Like Silver
Pour Down Like Silver is the third album by the British duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard and singer Linda Thompson. It was recorded in the summer of 1975 and released in November 1975....

 album. Three of the concerts in that tour were recorded by John Wood (music producer)
John Wood (music producer)
John Wood is an English sound engineer and producer, best known for his work with Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Nico and Squeeze.-Career:...

 who had worked with the Thompsons on all three of their early 70s albums.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson except where noted otherwise.
  1. "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight"
  2. "Hard Luck Stories"
  3. "Night Comes In"
  4. "Morris Medley" (Trad. Arr. Richard Thompson)
  5. "A Heart Needs A Home"
  6. "Why Don't You Love Me" (Hank Williams)
  7. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson & Dave Swarbrick
    Dave Swarbrick
    Dave Swarbrick is an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him...

    )
  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" (Glen D. Hardin)
  14. "It'll Be Me" (Jack H. Clement)
  15. "Together Again" (Buck Owens
    Buck Owens
    Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...

    )

Personnel

  • Richard Thompson - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

     and vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Linda Thompson
    Linda Thompson (singer)
    Linda Thompson is a British singer. Born Linda Pettifer in Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard...

     - vocals
  • John Kirkpatrick  - accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

    , concertina
    Concertina
    A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it...

  • Dave Pegg
    Dave Pegg
    Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...

     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Dave Mattacks
    Dave Mattacks
    Dave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

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