Live! (more or less)

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Live! (more or less)
Live! (more or less) cover
Studio album by Richard Thompson
Released 1976
Recorded  ???
Genre Rock
Length  ???
Label Island
Producer(s) Richard Thompson, Richard Williams and John Wood
Richard Thompson chronology
(guitar, vocal)
(1976)
Live! (more or less)
(1976)
Strict Tempo!
(1981)


Live! (more or less) is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1976.

This was a U.S. only release. The first disc of the two-disc set is, in fact, the 1974 release I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson. The second disc consists of 7 tracks from the (guitar, vocal) compilation issued in the UK - most of them not live.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson except where indicated otherwise.

Disc one:

  1. "When I Get To The Border"
  2. "The Calvary Cross"
  3. "Withered and Died"
  4. "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight"
  5. "Down Where The Drunkards Roll"
  6. "We Sing Hallelujah"
  7. "Has He Got A Friend For Me"
  8. "The Little Beggar Girl"
  9. "The End Of The Rainbow"
  10. "The Great Valerio"

Disc two:

  1. "The Ballad Of Easy Rider" (written by Roger McGuinn)
  2. "Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman" (written by Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick)
  3. "A Heart Needs A Home"
  4. "The Dark End Of The Street" (written by Dan Penn and Chips Moman)
  5. "The Pitfall/The Excursion"
  6. "Flee As A Bird" (traditional, arranged by Richard Thompson)
  7. "Night Comes In"
  8. "Calvary Cross"