At the time of this concert, his most recent album was 1997's "Industry," done in collaboration with bassist Danny Thompson (who, by the way, shows up only for the last few songs in this concert). But only one song here was performed from that album, "Last Shift." His next album would be "Mock Tudor" in 1999, and he already performed one song from that, "Crawl Back (Under My Stone)." Otherwise, the songs are from other parts of his long musical career, plus an interesting cover, "She May Call You Up Tonight," originally done by the Left Banke.
I'm sure this was a BBC recording. I know this because this actually was two sets, with "Razor Dance" being the first song of the second set. And between the two sets, there was a voiceover by a BBC DJ explaining how the first set was over but the BBC would be coming back for the second set. I cut all that out, as I usually cut out BBC DJ talk that wasn't part of the actual concert.
However, I find something puzzling: given that this is a BBC recording, the sound quality was surprisingly crappy for the BBC! The main problem was the echo-y vocals. They sounded like they were recorded in a tunnel. And the second set had even more echo than the first set. Luckily, thanks to recent improvements in audio editing technology, this was fixable. It's just that it was a pain in the ass. I used MVSEP on all the songs, splitting them into vocals and instruments. Then I took just the vocal track and ran it through MVSEP again, using their "Reverb Removal" filter.
That pretty much got rid of all of the problems with the vocals. Now, this sounds excellent, like you'd expect a BBC recording to sound.
This unreleased album is an hour and 24 minutes long.
01 I Feel So Good (Richard Thompson)
02 The Ghost of You Walks (Richard Thompson)
03 talk (Richard Thompson)
04 Hamlet (Richard Thompson)
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 Last Shift (Richard Thompson)
07 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson)
08 Pharaoh (Richard Thompson)
09 Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson)
10 A Heart Needs a Home (Richard Thompson)
11 talk (Richard Thompson)
12 She May Call You Up Tonight (Richard Thompson)
13 Razor Dance (Richard Thompson)
14 Turning of the Tide (Richard Thompson)
15 Bathsheba Smiles (Richard Thompson)
16 talk (Richard Thompson)
17 How Will I Ever Be Simple Again (Richard Thompson)
18 Walking on a Wire (Richard Thompson)
19 talk (Richard Thompson)
20 Crawl Back [Under My Stone] (Richard Thompson)
21 talk (Richard Thompson)
22 Persuasion (Richard Thompson)
23 talk (Richard Thompson)
24 Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson)
25 Wall of Death (Richard Thompson)
26 Beeswing (Richard Thompson)
27 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Richard Thompson)
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The cover photo is from a concert at San Jose State University, in San Jose, California, on June 28, 1998.
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