Richard Thompson w/ Judith Owen & Debra Dobkin - 4 February 2005: Sacramento, California

Disc 1

  1. Summer Is Icumen In (Trad.)
  2. "This is a weird song"
  3. King Henry Fifth's Conquest Of France (Trad.)
  4. "Something in Italian"
  5. So Ben Mi C'ha Bon Tempo (Vecchi)
  6. "The Cruel Mother ballads"
  7. Bonnie St. Johnstone (Trad.)
  8. "This is a madrigal"
  9. O Sleep, Fond Fancy (Morley)
  10. "We'll try anything"
  11. When I Am Laid In Earth - Dido's Lament (Purcell) *
  12. "We're going to give you a carol"
  13. Remember O Thou Man (Ravenscroft)
  14. "The other side of the pond"
  15. Shenandoah (Trad.)
  16. "A song from the industrial age"
  17. Blackleg Miner (Trad.)
  18. "The British music hall"
  19. (I Live In) Trafalgar Square (Murphy)
  20. "Meanwhile, on the other side of town"
  21. There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast (Gilbert/Sullivan)
  22. "Almost a folk song"
  23. Down By The Salley Gardens (Yeats) *
  24. "Into the twentieth century"
  25. Java Jive (Drake/Oakland)
  26. "A bit of a standard"
  27. Night And Day (Porter)

Disc 2

  1. "Something uplifting"
  2. London Pride (Coward)
  3. "A Nat King Cole number"
  4. Orange-Coloured Sky (Delugg/Stein)
  5. "We've hit rock 'n' roll"
  6. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (McGhee/Williams)
  7. "No genre unturned"
  8. A-11 (Cochran)
  9. "Growing up in North London"
  10. See My Friends (Davies)
  11. "Meanwhile, in Australia"
  12. Friday On My Mind (Young/Vanda)
  13. Tempted (Difford/Tilbrook)
  14. "One of my favourite artists"
  15. Kiss (Nelson)
  16. "The year 2000"
  17. Oops!... I Did It Again (Sandberg/Yacoub)
  1. "Not that sort of cheap show"
  2. Ja Nun Hons Pris (Coeur de Lion)
  3. "A song that says it all"
  4. Money, Money, Money (Andersson/Ulvaeus)
  5. It Won't Be Long (Lennon/McCartney)
  1. Sam Hall (Ross)
  2. "Judith's going to sing a song"
  3. Cry Me A River (Hamilton) *
  4. "The number one download on iTunes"
  5. 1985 (Allen)
*
w/ Judith Owen on lead vocals

Recorded live at the 24th Street Theatre in Sacramento, California on February 4, 2005.

Source:
B&K 4061 > CoreSounds HEB battery box > Sony D100 w/ mic pre + 20dB pad > DAT > CDR

Another 1,000 Years Of Popular Music show, with Judith Owen on vocals and Debra Dobkin on percussion. Very good audience recording, and as enjoyable a show as ever. The news that DD will appear on Front Parlour Ballads will delight Thompson fans near and far.