Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson essentially invented British folk-rock with Fairport Convention, then decided to go solo after a tragic car accident. Linda Peters was a Glaswegian university dropout who cut her teeth as a singer on advertising jingles. In 1972, they married. In 1973, they joined a commune dedicated to Sufism, a mystical and spiritual form of Islam and swore never to play music again. But then in 1974, they wrote, recorded and released what Rolling Stone magazine calls the 485th Greatest Album of All Time: “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” Liam and CMB listen to it and then dish out hot takes about traditional British folk music, Old Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, metaphorical tightrope-walking, literal tightrope-walking, middle class anti-capitalism and Brian Emo. All this and more on episode 16 of Enjoy An Album!

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