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Richard & Linda Thompson - The Great American Music Hall June 6, 1982 (early) (1982)

Track listing:
  1. Announcer Intro > Man In Need 4:05
  2. I'm A Dreamer 5:06
  3. Lonely Hearts 6:16
  4. The New Fangled Flogging Reel > The Kerry Reel 2:58
  5. The Honky Tonk Blues 4:46
  6. The Dimming Of The Day 3:47
  7. Talk - Intro To Next Song 1:15
  8. I'll Keep It With Mine 6:42
  9. You're Gonna Need Somebody 3:51
  10. Shoot Out The Lights 6:07
  11. Just The Motion 7:01
  12. Band Intros By Richard 1:00
  13. Don't Renege On Our Love 5:56
  14. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed? 6:30
  15. For Shame Of Doing Wrong 9:29
  16. Thanks And Crowd Before Encores 0:53
  17. Down Where The Drunkards Roll 5:03
  18. Danny Boy 3:26
  19. Final Thanks & Crowd 0:10

Notes

San Francisco

The last night of the American tour from audience cassette masters, recorded from the railing of the balcony (stage left side). Decent sound quality - check the samples to judge for yourself how it sounds.

Linda sounds a bit weary when she talks and misses a vocal entry in Bright Lights Tonight, but overall I think that these are really good shows. There is actually quite a bit of joking around that disguises the tenseness of this rough tour and the end of Richard & Linda as a couple. They were at least trying to play well - they repeat I'm a Dreamer at the late show, hoping to record a better version than it had been in the early show. That indicates that they actually hoped to use the tapes from this tour - an interesting concept considering that these were to be the last perfomances of the band.