First Light (album)

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First Light
First Light cover
Studio album by Richard and Linda Thompson
Released October 1978
Recorded 1978 at Olympic Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 43:13
Label Chrysalis
Producer(s) Richard Thompson and John Wood
Richard and Linda Thompson chronology
Pour Down Like Silver
(1975)		 First Light'
(1978)		 Sunnyvista
(1979)


After the release of their third album, "Pour Down Like Silver", British folk-rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson took an extended break from music. They spent much of the next three years living in sufi communes in London and Norfolk.

This prolonged sabbatical was punctuated by occasional session work by Richard Thompson and a short tour in 1977 in which the duo performed mostly new, religious material and were backed by musicians who were also practitioners of the sufi faith.

In 1978 Richard Thompson accepted and invitation from Joe Boyd to play on Julie Covington's eponymous solo debut album. Boyd then convinced Thompson and his manager Jo Lustig to take the opportunity to record a new album with the American session musicians bought into to play on the Covington album.

The resulting First Light was the fourth album by Richard and Linda Thompson and marked their resumption of their recording career.

It is dominated by spiritual songs, many of them direct translations of sufi and koranic texts.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson except Pavanne which is written by Richard and Linda Thompson.

  1. "Restless Highway"
  2. "Sweet Surrender"
  3. "Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart"
  4. "The Choice Wife"
  5. "Died For Love"
  6. "Strange Affair
  7. "Layla"
  8. "Pavanne"
  9. "House Of Cards"
  10. "First Light"

[edit] Personnel

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