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I Want to Shoot Out the Bright Lights Tonight 
Richard & Linda Thompson – Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982 (Box Set, Compilation, Remastered)
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Thompson was probably an insufierable prat, a total PITA. But is he arguably one the best guitarists in the world, and if that opinion is challenged, then he is undeniably one of the most eccentric guitarists in the world. The box set starts with a kind of preamble which offers early recordings in which Thompson and then Linda Peters happened to work together, sometimes together with Sandy Denny. It then gets into the strange and delightfully quirky I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. It ends with the brilliant Shoot Out the Lights. Between these two bookends, there is a large body of highly interesting but admittedly lesser material with the odd brilliant highlight here and there. The box set has very high production values, but it is poorly thought out in some ways. A large number of the sets shipped with damaged discs (because of the stupid sleeves with punch cut slots in heavy cardboard for holding the disks). Purchasers apparently found disks cracked and/or unplayable or unrippable. Individual sleeves replicating the original album covers might have been a safer option and would have made following the sequence of tracks on the discs easier. The accompanying book is nice. The remix of the albums is generally spectacular. Lots of enjoyment here for fans but a bit of overkill for disinterested dabblers. Highly recommended for fans of Mr. T and his ex, the lovely Linda.
Pentangle – The Albums (7× CD, Box Set, Reissue, Remastered)
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The box set contains pretty much everything worthwhile (except for some BBC, ITV, and NRK TV recordings) from the best and perhaps only Jazz-Folk Fusion group – Jacqui McShee (vocals); John Renbourn (vocals and guitar); Bert Jansch (vocals and guitar); Danny Thompson (double bass); and Terry Cox (drums). Some reviewers have disliked the remastering. No attempt has been made to make the music sound like modern recordings. Things have been cleaned up, and the music is presented as of its period. The sound is generally great except for a few never-intended-for-release historical curiosities which sound as if they were captured on an early portable cassette recorder with no limiter. The performances are great, of course. I mean, how could they not be? Bert Lives! The accompanying book is also nice. An absolutely delightful set! Highly recommended.
Richard & Linda Thompson – Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982 (Box Set, Compilation, Remastered)
Richard & Linda Thompson - Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Box Set release of "Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
Thompson was probably an insufierable prat, a total PITA. But is he arguably one the best guitarists in the world, and if that opinion is challenged, then he is undeniably one of the most eccentric guitarists in the world. The box set starts with a kind of preamble which offers early recordings in which Thompson and then Linda Peters happened to work together, sometimes together with Sandy Denny. It then gets into the strange and delightfully quirky I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. It ends with the brilliant Shoot Out the Lights. Between these two bookends, there is a large body of highly interesting but admittedly lesser material with the odd brilliant highlight here and there. The box set has very high production values, but it is poorly thought out in some ways. A large number of the sets shipped with damaged discs (because of the stupid sleeves with punch cut slots in heavy cardboard for holding the disks). Purchasers apparently found disks cracked and/or unplayable or unrippable. Individual sleeves replicating the original album covers might have been a safer option and would have made following the sequence of tracks on the discs easier. The accompanying book is nice. The remix of the albums is generally spectacular. Lots of enjoyment here for fans but a bit of overkill for disinterested dabblers. Highly recommended for fans of Mr. T and his ex, the lovely Linda.
Pentangle – The Albums (7× CD, Box Set, Reissue, Remastered)
Pentangle - The Albums
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2017 CD release of "The Albums" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
The box set contains pretty much everything worthwhile (except for some BBC, ITV, and NRK TV recordings) from the best and perhaps only Jazz-Folk Fusion group – Jacqui McShee (vocals); John Renbourn (vocals and guitar); Bert Jansch (vocals and guitar); Danny Thompson (double bass); and Terry Cox (drums). Some reviewers have disliked the remastering. No attempt has been made to make the music sound like modern recordings. Things have been cleaned up, and the music is presented as of its period. The sound is generally great except for a few never-intended-for-release historical curiosities which sound as if they were captured on an early portable cassette recorder with no limiter. The performances are great, of course. I mean, how could they not be? Bert Lives! The accompanying book is also nice. An absolutely delightful set! Highly recommended.
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