Richard & Linda Thompson - Hard Luck Stories

Artwork

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. You're Going To Need Somebody
  7. Pavanne
  8. Withered And Died
  9. Man In Need
  10. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
  11. Down Where The Drunkards Roll
  12. Danny Boy (Weatherly)
  13. Dimming Of The Day
  1. I'm A Dreamer (Denny)
  2. Hard Luck Stories
1-13
Recorded live at The Bottom Line in New York on May 17, 1982 (early show)
14-15
Recorded live at The Bottom Line in New York on May 17, 1982 (late show).

Wonderfully clear soundboard recording and a great performance, although the title track is impressively fumbled. Released as a commercial boot, it's a compilation from the early and late shows, with Back Street Slide unfortunately cut at the beginning as per the master soundboard tape.

If somebody's got unedited copies of these masters, which apparently stretch to 80mins each, please let me know.