Pour Down Like Silver

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pour Down Like Silver
Pour Down Like Silver cover
Studio album by Richard and Linda Thompson
Released November 1975
Recorded 1975 at Sound Techniques, London
Genre Rock
Length 40:40
Label Island in the UK

Warner Bros. Records in the USA
Producer(s) Richard Thompson and John Wood
Richard and Linda Thompson chronology
Hokey Pokey
(1975)		 Pour Down Like Silver
(1975)		 First Light
(1978)


Pour Down Like Silver is the third album by the British duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard and singer Linda. It was recorded in the summer of 1975 and released in November 1975.

The Thompsons had adopted the sufi faith in 1974 and had moved into a commune in London. The songs on this album reflect their new faith and the relief that Richard Thompson had found in that faith. Despite the sufic references in the lyrics, the album is recognisably a Richard and Linda Thompson album, retaining much of the "Englishness" of the duo's previous two albums. Over the years it has come to be regarded as one of the best albums of the 1970s and one of the very best religiously inspired rock albums.

After this album the duo took a sabbatical from recording, writing and performing music.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson except Dargai which is written by J. Scott Skinner and arranged by Richard Thompson.

  1. "Streets Of Paradise""
  2. "For Shame Of Doing Wrong"
  3. "The Poor Boy Is Taken Away"
  4. "Night Comes In"
  5. "Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair"
  6. "Beat The Retreat"
  7. "Hard Luck Stories"
  8. "Dimming Of The Day"
  9. "Dargai"

[edit] Personnel

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../p/o/u/Pour_Down_Like_Silver_0afb.html"