Richard & Linda Thompson - Strange Affair

Artwork

Disc 1

  1. Madness Of Love (Thompson/Whiteman)
  2. Night Comes In
  3. The Bird In God's Garden
  4. King Of Love
  5. Layla
  1. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
  2. The Wrong Heartbeat
  3. Speechless Child
  4. Wall Of Death
  5. Just The Motion
  6. Back Street Slide
  1. Modern Woman
  2. (Interview)

Disc 2

  1. House Of Cards
  2. Genesis Hall
  3. Restless Highway
  4. Pavanne
  5. Madame Sosthene (Trad.)
  6. Things You Gave Me (Hardin)
  7. Sweet Surrender
  8. The Gas Almost Works (Kirkpatrick)
  9. Layla
  10. Then He Kissed Me
  1. Lonely Hearts
  2. Strange Affair (al-Huwari/Thompson)
  3. Sunnyvista
  4. Crying In The Rain (Greenfield/King)
  1. Just The Motion
  2. How Many Times
  3. Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie/Pinkard/Casey)
  4. Modern Woman
1-5
Recorded live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, England on May 1, 1977
6-11
Recorded live at Cherry Hinton Hall in Cambridge, England on August 1, 1980
12
Recorded live at Cherry Hinton Hall in Cambridge, England on August 2, 1980
13-22
Recorded live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, England on November 12, 1978
23-26
Recorded for Richard Digance on Capital Radio in London, England on February 10, 1980
27-30
Recorded for Richard Digance on Capital Radio in London on June 22, 1980.

Assorted live rarities, including excerpts from shows at the Theatre Royal in 1977 (found in a more complete form on The Madness Of Love boot) and 1978, stints at the 1980 Cambridge Folk Festival and a couple of Capital FM radio appearances, all in soundboard quality.

The original set has been augmented slightly with the addition of the Cambridge Folk Festival interview segment from a different source.