Richard and Linda Thompson - For Shame of Doing Wrong (Rafferty's Folly)

After the commercial disappointments of their albums "First Light" and "Sunnyvista", Richard and Linda Thompson had their backs against the wall. Needing to put out an album that would do well on the charts, they enlisted Gerry Rafferty (1/2 of Stealers Wheel and the artist behind the megahit "Baker Street") in 1980, who they were opening for at the time. The slick production (especially with the rhythm section and the moog synthesizer) doesn't really suit Richard and Linda all that well, hence the name of the bootleg. Most of the material from these sessions wound up on the Joe Boyd-produced "Shoot Out the Lights" in 1982, an album which Rolling Stone called the #9th best released in the 80s. This song was originally on their 1975 album "Pour Down Like Silver". Why it got re-recorded is anyone's best guess, but a great song shines through bad production, regardless.

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• Richard and Linda Thompson
• Gerry Rafferty
• Shoot out the lights

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