Hard Luck Stories 1972 - 1982

Tracklist

• CD 1: Sometimes It Happens (1972 - 1973)
• 1
  Sweet Little Rock and Roller [alternate version / previously unreleased]

  The Bunch
  3:48
• 2
  The Locomotion

  The Bunch
  3:02
• 3
  My Girl in the Month of May

  The Bunch
  2:13
• 4
  When Will I Be Loved [demo]

  The Bunch
  3:17
• 5
  Amazon Queen [previously unreleased]

  Richard Thompson
  3:58
• 6
  Shaky Nancy

  Richard Thompson
  3:28
• 7
  The Angels Took My Racehorse Away

  Richard Thompson
  4:02
• 8
  Embroidered Butterflies

  Brian Patten
  3:17
• 9
  After Frost

  Brian Patten
  1:57
• 10
  Sometimes It Happens [demo]
  2:06
• 11
  Restless Boy
  4:17
• 12
  The World Is a Wonderful Place
  3:30
• 13
  Shady Lies [live at London University College, 25/10/1972]
  2:23
• 14
  Napoleon’s Dream [live at London University College, 25/10/1972]
  2:02
• CD 2: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
• 1
  When I Get to the Border
  3:26
• 2
  The Calvary Cross
  3:52
• 3
  Withered and Died
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
  3:08
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Down Where the Drunkards Roll
  4:06
• 6
  We Sing Hallelujah
  2:51
• 7
  Has He Got a Friend for Me?
  3:33
  3.4 ★
• 8
  The Little Beggar Girl
  3:25
  3.3 ★
• 9
  The End of the Rainbow
  3:56
• 10
  The Great Valerio
  5:23
• 11
  Mother and Son [previously unreleased]
  2:21
• 12
  Down Where the Drunkards Roll [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:04
• 13
  The End of the Rainbow [Linda vocal version / previously unreleased]
  3:57
• 14
  A Heart Needs a Home [previously unreleased]
  3:58
• 15
  The Great Valerio [live at the Rainbow UK, 16/03/1975]
  5:16
• CD 3: Hokey Pokey
• 1
  Hokey Pokey
  3:22
• 2
  I’ll Regret It All in the Morning
  3:36
• 3
  Smiffy’s Glass Eye
  2:53
  3.0 ★
• 4
  The Egypt Room
  3:52
• 5
  Never Again
  3:08
• 6
  Georgie on a Spree
  3:40
• 7
  Old Man Inside a Young Man
  4:26
• 8
  The Sun Never Shines on the Poor
  3:41
• 9
  A Heart Needs a Home
  3:47
• 10
  Mole in a Hole
  3:26
• 11
  Hokey Pokey [live on Marc Time / previously unreleased]
  3:13
• 12
  A Heart Needs a Home [alternate version]
  4:03
• CD 4: Pour Down Like Silver
• 1
  Streets of Paradise
  4:17
• 2
  For Shame of Doing Wrong
  4:43
• 3
  The Poor Boy Is Taken Away
  3:34
• 4
  Night Comes In
  8:11
• 5
  Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair
  2:49
• 6
  Beat the Retreat
  5:52
• 7
  Hard Luck Stories
  3:51
• 8
  Dimming of the Day / Dargai
  3:52
• 9
  Wanted Man [previously unreleased]
  5:35
• 10
  Last Chance [previously unreleased]
  3:42
• 11
  Dimming of the Day [demo / previously unreleased]
  3:52
• 12
  Things You Gave Me [live at Oxford Polytechnic, 27/11/1975]
  2:35
• 13
  It’ll Be Me [live at Oxford Polytechnic, 27/11/1975]
  4:24
• 14
  Calvary Cross [live at Oxford Polytechnic, 27/11/1975]
  13:24
• CD 5: The Madness of Love (live 1975 & 1977)
• 1
  Dargai [live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 25/04/1975]
  3:33
• 2
  Never Again [live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 25/04/1975]
  3:07
• 3
  Dark End of the Street [live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 25/04/1975]
  4:19
• 4
  Beat the Retreat [live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 25/04/1975]
  6:24
• 5
  The Sun Never Shines on the Poor [live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 25/04/1975]
  3:48
• 6
  If I Were a Woman and You Were a Man [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  2:54
• 7
  The Madness of Love [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  7:00
• 8
  Night Comes In [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  12:53
• 9
  A Bird in Gods Garden [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  9:33
• 10
  The King of Love [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  6:55
• 11
  Layla [live at Theatre Royal, London 01/05/1977]
  8:48
• CD 6: First Light
• 1
  Restless Highway
  3:58
• 2
  Sweet Surrender
  4:53
• 3
  Don’t Let a Thief Steal Into Your Heart
  4:43
• 4
  The Choice Wife
  2:06
• 5
  Died for Love
  7:01
• 6
  Strange Affair
  3:08
• 7
  Layla
  4:22
• 8
  Pavane
  5:07
• 9
  House of Cards
  3:30
• 10
  First Light
  4:22
• 11
  Strange Affair [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:09
• 12
  Drunk [demo / previously unreleased]
  2:14
• 13
  The Dust of Your Road [demo / previously unreleased]
  2:33
• 14
  Layla [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:38
• 15
  Died for Love [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:47
• 16
  First Light [demo]
  4:03
• CD 7: Sunnyvista
• 1
  Civilisation
  5:01
• 2
  Borrowed Time
  5:34
• 3
  Saturday Rolling Around
  3:24
• 4
  You’re Going to Need Somebody
  3:47
• 5
  Why Do You Turn Your Back?
  5:09
• 6
  Sunnyvista
  4:24
• 7
  Lonely Hearts
  5:05
• 8
  Sisters
  4:47
• 9
  Justice in the Streets
  4:00
• 10
  Traces of My Love
  4:05
• 11
  Georgie on a Spree [b-side to 'Civilisation' 7”]
  3:28
• 12
  Lucky in Life [demo / previously unreleased]
  2:42
• 13
  Speechless Child [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:17
• 14
  Traces of My Love [demo / previously unreleased]
  4:13
• 15
  For Shame of Doing Wrong [Gerry Rafferty version]
  4:16
• 16
  The Wrong Heartbeat [Gerry Rafferty version]
  3:09
• 17
  Back Street Slide [Gerry Rafferty version]
  4:27
• CD 8: Shoot Out the Lights
• 1
  Don’t Renege on Our Love
  4:17
• 2
  Walking on a Wire
  5:26
• 3
  A Man in Need
  3:34
• 4
  Just the Motion
  6:17
• 5
  Shoot Out the Lights
  5:22
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Back Street Slide
  4:31
• 7
  Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?
  4:49
• 8
  Wall of Death
  3:43
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Living in Luxury [b-side to 'Don't Renege on Our Love' 7”]
  2:32
• 10
  The Wrong Heartbeat [Shoot Out the Lights version]
  3:20
• 11
  I’m a Dreamer [Gerry Rafferty session / 1996 remix]
  4:09
• 12
  Walking on a Wire [Gerry Rafferty session / 1996 remix]
  5:12
• 13
  Pavanne [live at Second Story, Bloomington, Indiana 29/05/1982 / previously unreleased]
  5:38
• 14
  High School Confidential [live at Second Story, Bloomington, Indiana 29/05/1982 / previously unreleased]
  4:29

More by Richard & Linda Thompson

In Concert, November 1975

In Concert, November 1975 2007

The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years

The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years 2000

Shoot Out the Lights

Shoot Out the Lights 1982

Sunnyvista

Sunnyvista 1979

First Light

First Light 1978

Pour Down Like Silver

Pour Down Like Silver 1975

Release credits

• Aly Bain
  fiddle [1-8], violin [1]
• Andy Lunn
  assistant [1-10]
• Andy Newmark
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Barry Dransfield
  fiddle [7]
• Betsy Cook
  piano [17]
• Bill Gill
  engineer [1-8]
• Clare Lowther
  cello [5]
• Clive Gregson
  background vocals [2, 8]
• Dave Mattacks
  drums (drum set) [4.1-2, 4.7, 4.14, 7.17, 8.1-8]
• Dave Pegg
  bass [7.1-10, 8.3, 8.6-8], bass guitar [1-2, 7, 14]
• Gavyn Wright
  strings [17]
• Gerry Rafferty
  producer [17]
• Glenn Tilbrook
  background vocals [2]
• Henry Lowther
  trumpet [1-8]
• Hugh Murphy
  producer [17]
• Ian Whiteman
  concert flute [1-8], shakuhachi [1-8]
• Joe Boyd
  producer [1-8]
• John Kirkpatrick
  Anglo concertina [2.3, 4.1-8], accordion [1.7, 7.17], button accordion [4.1-8, 4.14, 6.1-3, 6.6-7, 6.9-10]
• John Wood
  engineer [1-8], producer [3.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1-8], recording [14], remixer [14]
• John Wood
  engineer [7.1-10, 6.1-3, 6.6-10, 2.1-10], producer [2.1-10, 6.1-3, 6.6-10, 7.1-10, 4.4]
• Julian Littman
  background vocals [2]
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle
  background vocals [4, 8, 10]
• Lal Waterson
  background vocals [3]
• Linda Thompson
  background vocals [7.17, 3.7, 4.4, 4.14], vocal [5.3, 3.1, 3.5, 6.1-3, 6.6-10, 7.2, 8.1-8, 2.3, 2.10, 1.6-7, 4.5]
• Marc Ellington
  background vocals [2]
• Martin Carthy
  background vocals [3]
• Michael Spencer-Arscott
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4, 6-9]
• Mike Waterson
  background vocals [3]
• Neil Larsen
  keyboard [1-3, 6-7, 9-10]
• Nic Jones
  fiddle [1-8]
• Norma Waterson
  background vocals [3]
• Pat Donaldson
  bass [2.3, 2.10, 3.1, 3.7], bass guitar [1.6-7, 4.3-6, 4.8]
• Pete Wingfield
  keyboard [1-10]
• Pete Zorn
  background vocals [8], bass [7.17, 8.1-2, 8.4-5]
• Phil Pickett
  shawm [17]
• Richard Thompson
  12 string guitar [5], Appalachian dulcimer [5], acoustic guitar [3.1, 3.5, 6.6, 2.3, 2.10, 5.3], background vocals [8.2, 3.7], electric guitar [7.2, 7.17, 8.1-5, 8.7-8, 6.6, 2.3, 3.1, 3.7, 4.5, 4.14], guitar [6-7], guitar family [4], hammered dulcimer [2.10, 4.4, 7.2], lead vocals [7], mandolin [6], phonographic copyright [1-3, 6-10], piano [7], producer [4.1-8, 6.1-3, 6.6-10, 2.1-10, 7.1-10], tin whistle [6], vocal [1.6-7, 4.4-5, 4.14, 3.1, 5.3, 7.2, 7.17, 6.1-3, 6.6-10, 8.1-8]
• Robert Kirby
  conductor [6], strings [6]
• Sandy Denny
  vocal [6-7]
• Simon Nicol
  12 string guitar [1, 7], acoustic guitar [3.5, 3.7, 8.2, 6.6], autoharp [5], background vocals [7], electric guitar [3.1, 8.3, 8.8, 7.2, 7.17], guitar [1, 4-7], piano [1], producer [1, 5, 7]
• Timi Donald
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.7, 4.3-6, 4.8, 2.3, 1.7, 7.3, 7.5, 7.10], membranophone [6], percussion [7.3, 7.5, 7.10, 3.1]
• Wil Malone
  strings [17]
• Willie Weeks
  bass [1-3, 6-10]
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Issues

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  Hard Luck Stories 1972 - 1982

  8x CD
  11 September 2020