Recorded live at The Swan Theatre in High Wycombe, England on January 19, 1998.

Richard Thompson - 19 January 1998: High Wycombe, England

Disc 1

  1. Turning Of The Tide
  2. Bathsheba Smiles
  3. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
  4. I Feel So Good
  5. The Ghost Of You Walks
  6. Dog Eat Dog In Denmark (Loesser)
  7. Last Shift
  8. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
  9. Pharaoh
  10. Keep Your Distance
  11. Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands
  12. The Poor Ditching Boy
  13. Walking On A Wire
  14. Crawl Back (Under My Stone) *
  15. A Heart Needs A Home *
  16. Brink Of Love (T. Thompson) *

Disc 2

  1. Brink Of Love (T. Thompson) *
  2. She May Call You Up Tonight (Brown/Martin-Caro) *
  3. Razor Dance *
  4. (Encore Break)
  1. Waltzing's For Dreamers †
  2. Al Bowlly's In Heaven/(The Very Thought Of You (Noble)) †
  3. Wall Of Death * †
  1. Beeswing
  2. Days In The Park *
  3. Tear Stained Letter * †
*
w/ Teddy Thompson
†
w/ Danny Thompson

A fairly hollow sounding audience recording with a taper not afraid to speak up in places (including what sounds like a request for Devonshire). Despite that, it's an enjoyable show from the tour that begat Celtschmerz, with Richard in particularly laid-back mode. Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands is played as a tribute to Jimmy's 90th birthday which had apparently just passed. Early versions of Bathsheba Smiles and Crawl Back are included, with Teddy singing backing vocals on the latter.

Teddy sings lead on the self-penned numbers Brink Of Love (unfortunately cut short at the end of the first disc but included in its entirety at the start of the second) and Days In The Park. The inimitable Danny Thompson-no-relation takes the stage for the encores - according to the tradelist from which I picked this, his first appearance with Richard for ten months, although I think they played together at Guildford the previous Summer.

The tagging Of The Very Thought Of You to Al Bowlly's In Heaven is unusual (I haven't heard Richard do it before or since, although Norma Waterson follows suit on her 1999 album of the same name).