Listening to old Richard (and Linda) Thompson records

During the past few days, songs of R+LT have been playing in my headphones as I walk around the kibbutz or travel on the train. When I transferred the songs to the memory cards in the headphones several years ago, storage space was at a premium so I transferred only what I considered to be the better songs, maybe only 40-50% of them.

These days, memory cards are far larger and so there seems to be no reason why I can't listen to all of his old songs. Thus when I came home from my late afternoon walk, I dug out the first four cds ('Henry the human fly', 'I want to see the bright lights tonight', 'Hokey Pokey' and 'Pour down like silver') and ripped them to my computer's hard disk. Presumably at some time I'll transfer them to the various memory cards.

Whilst doing this, I remembered that Island Records issued some years ago a live record of R+LT from 1975 so I looked for this then ripped it too. I don't know whether I have listened to it since buying it - my records say 2 Oct 2007, so I could have blogged about it (but didn't). The recordings come from three different concerts, but not from the show in London which I attended.

Listening to these songs brings back many memories. One memory that I have never written about was that in 1977, I recorded a cassette of other people's songs. Maybe I should dig out that cassette just to see what was on it, although I doubt that I will enjoy the performances. As far as I recall, there was 'Autopsy' (Fairport), 'Something so right' (Paul Simon), 'Vision' (Peter Hammill), 'Fountain of sorrow' (Jackson Browne) and 'I'll regret it in the morning' (RT). There must have been a few other songs but I don't remember - possibly 'I don't know where I stand' (Joni Mitchell via the early Fairport).

Recalling this, it seems bizarre that the Richard Thompson song that I chose was 'I'll regret it' - it seems that I preferred this to 'Withered and died' and 'Has (s)he got a friend for me', both from 'Bright lights'. Incomprehensible to me now.

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