Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips - Fairly Obscure - Home Concert, Montclair, NJ, 5-31-2020

So far, Richard Thompson has played five home concerts during the coronavirus pandemic. I've posted two of them already. Here's the fifth.

"But wait!" You may well say. "What happened to the other two?" One I feel I can't post, because of a technical glitch that rendered it virtually unlistenable. The other one is fairly short, less than half an hour. I'm hoping he'll play a few other songs here and there, and then I'll be able to add those in and give it a more reasonable length. So in the meantime, here's the most recent one, which took place just a few days ago.

None of his first four home concerts had a theme. But this one does, even though it's a loose one. As he put it in his comments, this consists of "fairly obscure" songs. All of them are from his albums, and virtually all of them were written by him. But they're the sorts of songs that he's almost never played in concert. So if you're a serious Richard Thompson fan, this is for you.

As far as sound quality goes, there were some issues with the first ones. But I'm glad to say this one was recorded very well, so there are no issues to speak of. Thompson's recent romantic and musical partner, Zara Phillips, sings harmony vocals on a few songs. But her presence here is less than it was on some of the earlier home concerts, probably because she didn't know many of these obscure songs.

This concert is an hour and three minutes long.

01 talk (Richard Thompson)
02 Sam Jones (Richard Thompson)
03 talk (Richard Thompson)
04 The Poor Ditching Boy (Richard Thompson)
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 Sunset Song (Richard Thompson)
07 talk (Richard Thompson)
08 Doctor of Physick (Richard Thompson)
09 talk (Richard Thompson)
10 Devonside (Richard Thompson)
11 talk (Richard Thompson)
12 The End of the Rainbow (Richard Thompson)
13 talk (Richard Thompson)
14 Old Thames Side (Richard Thompson)
15 talk (Richard Thompson)
16 Hand of Kindness (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
17 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
18 Guns Are the Tongues (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
19 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
20 Razor Dance (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
21 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
22 Poppy Red (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
23 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
24 She Twists the Knife Again (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
25 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328432/RichrdT_2020d_FairlyObscreHomeConcrtMontclairNJ__5-31-2020_atse.zip.html

Now that this is the third Richard Thompson home concert I've posted, I decided they should have consistent covert art. So I've used the same font style as the second one, and I just went back and changed the first one to use that style too. The photo here is a screenshot from the concert in question.