Richard & Linda Thompson - A Man In Need

Disc 1

  1. Back Street Slide
  2. Just The Motion
  3. New-Fangled Flogging Reel/Kerry Reel (Trad.)
  4. Honky-Tonk Blues (Williams)
  5. I'll Keep It With Mine (Dylan)
  6. (Band Introductions)/You're Going To Need Somebody
  7. Pavanne
  8. Withered And Died
  9. Man In Need
  10. Walking On A Wire
  11. Don't Renege On Our Love

Disc 2

  1. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed?
  2. Shoot Out The Lights
  3. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
  1. Down Where The Drunkards Roll
  1. The Choice Wife (Trad.)
  2. Interview (1)
  3. Interview (2)
  4. Move It On Over (Williams)
  5. Interview (3)
  6. Back Street Slide
1-15
Recorded live at The Chance in Ploughkeepsie, New York on May 16, 1982
16-21
Recorded live for WBAI in a hotel room in New York on May 15, 1982.
"We're having a really good time tonight because Simon's wife had a baby this morning; Oliver." (Linda, before You're Going To Need Somebody)

Described as a soundboard tape, but probably an FM broadcast for WBAI, who also taped the Ed Haber interview/session with Richard and Simon the previous evening which is included as filler here - this is unfortunately incomplete, with a performance of O'Carolan's Shi Beg, Shi Mohr (apparently with Simon on lead guitar) omitted.

The show itself is a relatively undistinguished outing from early on in the tour. Pavanne is cut at the end and Withered And Died fades in a little late, whilst Down Where The Drunkards Roll is also truncated and I suspect at least one more encore is entirely missing.

To be honest, there are plenty of recordings from this tour that are infinitely better than this one, although the inclusion of the hotel session (albeit in incomplete form) is a nice touch.