Recorded live at Hollywood Nights in St. Louis, Missouri on October 11, 1982.

Richard Thompson - 11 October 1982: St. Louis, Missouri

Disc 1: Early show

  1. Wall Of Death
  2. Banish Misfortune (Trad.)
  3. Just The Motion
  4. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) (Williams)
  5. Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart
  6. How I Wanted To
  7. Woman Or A Man?
  8. Rockin' In Rhythm (Ellington/Carney/Mills)
  9. Lucky In Life, Unlucky In Love
  10. Back Street Slide
  11. Down Where The Drunkards Roll
  1. Just The Motion
    Withered And Died
    Don't Renege On Our Love
    So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (Everly)

Disc 2: Late show

  1. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
  2. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
  3. The Inverness Gathering/Maggie Cameron (Trad.)
  4. Move It On Over (Williams)
  5. Withered And Died
  6. Don't Renege On Our Love
  7. Genesis Hall
  8. Streets Of Paradise
  9. Man In Need
  10. Banish Misfortune (Trad.)
  11. The Cuckoo's Nest (Trad.)/A Heart Needs A Home
  12. Hokey Pokey
  1. Love Is Bad For Business
  2. Dimming Of The Day

A good soundboard from the 1982 solo acoustic tour, albeit to a fairly muted audience. Richard sounds much more settled after the intermission, drawing parallels between Willie Clancy's version of Banish Misfortune and The Sex Pistols and playing Genesis Hall by request (introduced as a Fotheringport Confusion track). The brief instrumental version of The Cuckoo's Nest is played for the same insistent Fairport fan.

The soundcheck is also included on this recording, at the end of the first disc.

The sound is good, although there's some adjusting of the recording levels during the first track. The soundcheck is in slightly lower quality than the rest of the gig, but it's an interesting listen, with a raw version of Withered And Died (where remembering to change the gender of the narrator is still awkward) and an unusual outing for the Everly Brothers song So Sad (covered by John Prine, amongst others).