Richard Thompson - Down In Monterey

Artwork

Disc 1

  1. Time To Ring Some Changes
  2. Banish Misfortune (Trad.)
  3. Man In Need
  4. Honky-Tonk Blues (Williams)
  5. Lucky In Life, Unlucky In Love
  6. (Instrumentals)
  7. Down Where The Drunkards Roll
  8. Back Street Slide
  9. Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart
  10. The Choice Wife (Trad.)
  11. Just The Motion
  12. Move It On Over (Williams)
  13. Dargai (Skinner)
  14. Madame Sosthene (Trad.)
  15. The Random Jig (Hill)/(Instrumental)
  16. Genesis Hall

Disc 2

  1. You're Going To Need Somebody
  2. Borrowed Time
  3. Dimming Of The Day
  4. Shepherd's March/Maggie Cameron (Trad.)
  1. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
  1. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
  2. I'm Turning Off A Memory (Haggard)
  3. Back Street Slide
  4. Dimming Of The Day
  5. Modern Woman
  6. Just The Motion
  1. Pavanne
1-21
Recorded live at the Pacific Grove Arts Center in Pacific Grove, California on December 8, 1981
22-27
Recorded live for BBC Radio 2's Folk On Two on April 5, 1981
28
Recorded live for Jake Thackray and Songs TV programme in late 1980.

The main set here is normally attributed to "Pacific Arts Center, Monterey", a venue I can find no trace of. The arts center in Pacific Grove (on the Monterey peninsula) was the closest match I could find.

Jake Thackray and Songs was a short-lived TV series (six episodes) for the BBC; the guests for the programmes were, in order, Richard & Linda Thompson, Ralph McTell, The Maddy Prior Band, Alex Glasgow, Susha Guppy and Pete Scott. The Richard and Linda opener was broadcast on January 6, a date that is sometimes attributed to the recording of the session.