(guitar, vocal)

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(guitar, vocal)
Studio album by Richard Thompson
Released	May 1976
Recorded	1967–14 April 1976
Genre	Rock
Length	68:21
Label	Island
Producer(s)	Richard Thompson, Richard Williams and John Wood
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B) link
Richard Thompson chronology
Henry the Human Fly (1972)	(guitar, vocal) (1976)	Live! (more or less) (1976)

(guitar, vocal) is a 1976 album by Richard Thompson. It was released by Island Records as a career retrospective after he and his wife Linda had gone into semi-retirement from the business of making and performing music following the release of Pour Down Like Silver (1975).

The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from Thompson's then 8 year recording career. The compilation spanned his early years with Fairport Convention as well as the time he spent performing and recording as a duo with wife Linda. It was notable for two live cuts from the 1975 Richard and Linda Thompson tour — "Night Comes In" and "Calvary Cross" — which featured lengthy guitar solos by Thompson, and for the Fairport Convention track "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" which had been recorded for and then omitted from that group's Full House album. Finally, the album also includes two acoustic instrumentals, one of which ("The Pitfall/The Excursion") was written by Thompson himself — a comparatively rare occurrence for a writer of so many songs.

(guitar, vocal) has been out of print for some years now. Several tracks first released as part of this compilation have subsequently been included as bonus tracks on remastered Fairport Convention and Richard & Linda Thompson albums issued by Island Records.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson except where indicated otherwise.

1. "Time Will Show the Wiser" (Emmitt Rhodes)
2. "Throwaway Street Puzzle" (Ashley Hutchings, Thompson)
3. "Mr Lacey" (Hutchings)
4. "The Ballad of Easy Rider" (Roger McGuinn)
5. "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" (Thompson, Dave Swarbrick)
6. "Sweet Little Rock 'n Roller" (Chuck Berry)
7. "A Heart Needs a Home"
8. "The Dark End of the Street" (Dan Penn, Chips Moman)
9. "It'll Be Me" (Jack Clement)
10. "Flee As a Bird" (trad., arr. Thompson)
11. "Night Comes In"
12. "The Pitfall/The Excursion"
13. "Calvary Cross"