Richard Thompson - Black Crow - Non-Album Tracks (1996-2002)

Here's another Richard Thompson stray tracks album. Because he plays in solo acoustic format so much, I've divided his stray tracks into acoustic and full band albums. This is a full band album. It covers a lot of years because he doesn't have many full band rarities in this era. I have many more acoustic rarities from that time, as you'll see with future posts.

The songs come from a wide variety of sources. All but one has been officially released, and that one ("Put It There Pal") sounds just as good as the rest. By the way, I included "Put It There Pal" even though it appeared on Thompson's "You? Me? Us?" album, because he goes off with his guitar soloing on this version, almost doubling the length of the song.

Two songs, "Black Crow" and "Woodstock" are covers of Joni Mitchell songs from a Joni Mitchell tribute concert in 2000 that she attended. "Black Crow" is with a full band and "Woodstock" is acoustic, but I included "Woodstock" because I felt the two songs belong together.

"Dear Mary" is a very, very rare reunion of Richard and Linda Thompson since they divorced and broke up their musical partnership in 1982. Apparently they grew to be friends again after lots of bad blood, but they've hardly ever played music together since the break up. This song comes from a Linda Thompson album.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 From Galway to Graceland (Richard Thompson & Fairport Convention)
02 Put It There, Pal [Extended Solo Version] (Richard Thompson)
03 Le Forze d'Hercole - Lo Ballo Dell'Intorcia [Instrumental] (Philip Pickett & Richard Thompson)
04 Fully Qualified to Be Your Man (Richard Thompson)
05 Mr. Rebound (Richard Thompson)
06 Black Crow (Richard Thompson)
07 Woodstock (Richard Thompson)
08 Dear Mary (Linda Thompson with Richard Thompson)
09 Rockin' in Rhythm [Instrumental] (Richard Thompson)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15270890/RichrdT_1996-2002_BlackCrw_atse.zip.html

The cover art comes from a concert poster. I don't know the year. I also don't know why it has an Asian art look, but I like it, so I used a matching font for the album title. I had to do some editing to get the rectangular poster to fit in a square space.