''In Concert, November 1975'' is a live album by

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, released on

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in 2007. It is a document of the pair's second tour as headliners, which took them through the United Kingdom during the autumn of 1975.''In Concert, 1975.'' Island IMCD 327 984 824-3, 2007,

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. Like every other album by the couple, it did not make the charts in either the UK or the United States.

Content

The album is compiled from recordings made during the tour to promote the ''

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'' album. Three of the concerts in that tour were recorded by John Wood, who had worked with the Thompsons on all three of their early 1970s albums. All of the Thompson originals derive from those albums with the exception of "

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," one of the final singles by

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while Thompson was still in the band. The covers include a medley of Morris dancing songs, one

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song, and three American

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, also played over the closing credits to the 1971 film ''

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''; "Things You Gave Me" is a track on the 1967 album ''Country Fever'' by Ricky Nelson; " It'll Be Me" is a 1957

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, also a 1962 single by

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; and " Together Again" is a 1964 Buck Owens b-side that managed to top the Hot Country Singles as well as its A-side, " My Heart Skips a Beat." Recordings took place at venues in

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, and

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. Three songs recorded on November 27 at Oxford Polytechnic had been released on the 1976 Thompson compilation

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; two of those, "Calvary Cross" and "It'll Be Me" are included here in different mixes. The version of "Calvary Cross" had also appeared on the 2000 compilation, '' The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years''.

Track listing

Personnel

* Richard Thompson – vocals, electric guitar * Linda Thompson – vocals * John Kirkpatrick –

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, concertina * Dave Pegg – bass *

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– drums Production * John Wood –

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*Dave Hutchins, Barry Sage – assistant engineers *Robert Ellis – photography *David Suff, Tim Chacksfield, Joe Black – project coordinators *Philip Lloyd-Smee – packaging and design

References

External links

Richard Thompson website
2007 live albums Richard Thompson (musician) live albums {{2007-rock-album-stub