Richard Thompson
Towne Crier
Hopewell Junction, NY
August 1, 1985
Towne Crier
Hopewell Junction, NY
August 1, 1985
01 Announcer - Stage Intro
02 Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet
03 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken
04 Richard Thompson - Air for Morris Ogg - Mrs. MacLeod's Reel
05 Richard Thompson - Willie and the Hand Jive, Not Fade Away
06 Richard Thompson - Ghosts In The Wind
07 Richard Thompson - Valerie
08 Richard Thompson - Walking On A Wire
09 Richard Thompson - talk
10 Richard Thompson - She Twists The Knife Again
11 Richard Thompson - Nearly In Love
12 Richard Thompson - Devonside
13 Richard Thompson - talk
14 Richard Thompson - Inverness Gathering
15 Richard Thompson - It'll Be Me
16 Richard Thompson - Don't Tell Secrets
17 Richard Thompson - Move It On Over
18 Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
19 Richard Thompson - Jennie
20 Richard Thompson - Time To Ring Some Changes
21 Richard Thompson - The Angels Took My Racehorse Away
22 Announcer - Credits WBAI
23 Richard Thompson - The Great Valerio
24 Announcer - WBAI Outro
Okay, Voodoo Gang! When I started posting tapes back in 2011 (thanks to SilentWay graciously extending an invitation to me, a yappy commentator on the blog that he'd never met...), I started out by posting master copies of cassettes I'd recorded off the local radio. I was reluctant to share tape I'd got in trade as they were several generations down the road from a master tape. I figured someone, somewhere, had a better copy, so why should I be so presumptuous as to share my noisy trash?
At the same time, as a collector...I pursued low generation tapes. I looked for trade lists and traded for masters, or first generation copies. Not always, of course, and I traded for a lot of tapes that were of unknown generation.
So here's an unknown generation tape, that I marked on my list as an "A" for trade. I'm gonna guess I this is a 1st gen tape, as it sounds great. Somewhere out there, there's a lower generation, but the odds of finding it in 2025 grow dimmer every day.
The Edward Haber mentioned on Track 22 produced and recorded several albums for Mr. Thompson over the years, including 1993's "Watching The Dark" compilation.
