Table 102, Seat 4 – front and center, 4-person table. Oddly, 2 of the
seats remained vacant, although the show was sold out.
As usual, Thompson mixed it up nicely in his 21-song, 110-minute show,
with just two songs from his latest album 13
Rivers (plus “They Tore The Hippodrome Down” from the slightly-less-recent Acoustic Rarities). He went back 50
years to Fairport Convention for “Genesis Hall” (which I hadn’t heard before)
and Sandy Denny’s classic “Who Knows Where The Time Goes”, and did 4 songs from
the Richard and Linda Thompson days, ending the main set with “Dimming Of The Day”
as he did last year at The Birchmere. Naturally, the usual crowd favorites were
all there as well.
The high point for me came with the first encore, when a guy from the
next table requested my all-time favorite, “Al Bowlly’s In Heaven”. RT hedged a
bit, saying that he was more used to doing it with a band, but proceeded to
crank out a great rendition. I also particularly enjoyed the hilarious (but
unfortunately never-recorded) “Crocodile Tears” and the somber wartime ballad “Woods
Of Darney”.
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