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Richard Thompson - On The Air 1989-1990 (1990)

Track listing:
  1. Interview 2:20
  2. Turning Of The Tide 3:04
  3. Interview 4:01
  4. Waltzing's For Dreamers 8:09
  5. Turning Of The Tide 2:55
  6. Interview 7:01
  7. Shoot Out The Lights 3:49
  8. Interview 7:44
  9. Waltzing's For Dreamers 3:44
  10. Interview 7:26
  11. Turning Of The Tide 3:12
  12. Tear Stained Letter 3:47
  13. Interview 1:03
  14. Jerusalem On The Jukebox 4:33
  15. Heartbreak Hotel 5:14

Notes


"Saturday Sequence" Radio One
London, UK
January 14, 1989

01 Interview
02 Turning Of The Tide
03 Interview
04 Waltzing's For Dreamers

CBC Radio
Ottawa, Canada
February 8, 1989

05 Turning Of The Tide
06 Interview
07 Shoot Out The Lights
08 Interview
09 Waltzing's For Dreamers

RTE Radio
Dublin, Ireland
October 17, 1989

10 Interview
11 Turning Of The Tide

"Sunday Night" US TV
February, 1990

12 Tear Stained Letter w/Jo-El Sonnier
13 Interview
14 Jerusalem On The Jukebox
15 Heartbreak Hotel w/John Cale & Shawn Colvin


All are very good to excellent quality with the exception of the January 14th session which sounds like a high generation tape with a ton of hiss and a bit of a muffled sound as well as Richard sounding like he had been sucking on a tack of helium. Speed corrected it and cleaned it up as much as possible and is now fairly poor but listenable. According to Clinton Heylin's gig guide it's also missing "The Choice Wife". If anyone has a better and complete version of this session please share it.

The rest of the CD is highly enjoyable with the "Sunday Night" session being flat out awesome!

'Tear Stained Letter' with Jo-El Sonnier is absolutely wonderful and performed at breakneck speed, 'Heartbreak Hotel' is beautifully brilliant getting that John Cale treatment. Those two songs alone are worth a download.