Richard Thompson Band - 19 October 1988: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Disc 1

  1. As Lovers Do
  2. Wash Me Away
  3. I Specialise
  4. I Will Be There
  5. You Rascal You (Theard)
  6. That Same Mistake
  7. It's All Just Talk
  1. A Bone Through Her Nose
  2. Gypsy Love Songs
  3. Al Bowlly's In Heaven
  4. Here Without You (Clark)
  5. Waltzing's For Dreamers

Disc 2

  1. Turning Of The Tide
  2. When The Spell Is Broken
  3. Don't Tempt Me
  4. Can't Win
  5. Pepper In The Brandy
    The Seven-Colored Linnet (Kirkpatrick)
  6. Wall Of Death
  7. Jennie
  8. Valerie
  9. Jerusalem On The Jukebox
  10. Nearly In Love
  1. I Still Dream
  2. Crash The Party
  3. Shoot Out The Lights
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Clive Gregson & Christine Collister, recorded live at Club West in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 19, 1988
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Richard Thompson Band, recorded live at Club West in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 19, 1988.

Trader's Notes

I don't think there's been a better year of "showcase" RT guitar work. He just cranks throughout this tour. If you know anyone that questions whether he belongs in the pantheon of guitar gods, make them buy More Guitar (available at shows and, I think, through his website) and trade/find/listen to all the 88 tour shows they can lay their hands on.

This show, aside from the bonus opening set by C&G (which may be shy a song?), has a number of great tunes including a ripping version of Can't Win and a lovely cover of Here Without You, which Thompson, Collister & Gregson recorded for a Byrds tribute. Then there's also Crash The Party - a fun song that never quite rocked when the later band configuration with Shawn Colvin performed it (imo, of course.).

I'm told this is a soundboard. It's got a bit of an echo now and then, and occasionally it sounds a bit tinny to my ears, but overall, it's a great sounding recording.