1. Civilisation

2. Borrowed Time

3. Saturday Rolling Around

4. You're Going to Need Somebody 

5. Why Do You Turn Your Back? 

6. SunnyVista 

7. Lonely Hearts

8. Sisters

9. Justice In the Streets 

10. Traces of My Love 

11. Georgie on a Spree (BBC theme)

 

 

Updated: 6.20.04

current status: out-of-print

 

with Linda Thompson

 

CHR-1247
re-issue: Hannibal Records LP, CGLP-4403, USA
re-issue: Chrysalis Records CD, CCD-1247, UK
re-issue: Hannibal Records CD, HNCD-4403, U.S.A. [including single b-side, "Georgie on a Spree"]

All songs written by Richard Thompson and published by Beeswing Music

 

Produced by John Wood and Richard Thompson for Jo Lustig Ltd.

Recorded at Olympic Studios, Chelsea (formerly Sound Techniques)

Engineered by John Wood assisted by Andy Lunn

 

Richard Thompson: vocals, guitar, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, Roland guitar synthesizer

Linda Thompson: vocals

Michael Spencer-Arscott: drums

Timi Donald: drums, percussion on Traces Of My Love, Why Do You Turn Your Back?, and Saturday Rolling Around

Dave Pegg: bass

Pat Donaldson: bass on Traces Of My Love

Simon Nicol: acoustic and electric guitars

John Kirkpatrick: accordion, triangle

Sue Harris: oboe, hammered dulcimer

Pete Wingfield: keyboards

Rabbit Bundrick: keyboards on Traces Of My Love and Why Do You Turn Your Back?

Louis Jardine: percussion

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: backing vocals on Sisters, Traces Of My Love, and You're Going To Need Somebody

Glen Tilbrook: backing vocals on Lonely Hearts and Borrowed Time

Julian Littman: backing vocals on Lonely Hearts and Borrowed Time

Marc Ellington: backing vocals on Lonely Hearts and Borrowed Time

Olive Simpson: backing vocals on SunnyVista

Nicole Tibbels: backing vocals on SunnyVista

Lindsay Benton: backing vocals on SunnyVista

David Beavan: backing vocals on SunnyVista

Bruce Lynch: bass on Justice In The Streets

Dave Mattacks: drums on Justice In The Streets

Gerry Rafferty: backing vocals on Lonely Hearts

Hafsa Abdul Jabbas: backing vocals on Justice In The Streets

Abdu Rahim: backing vocals on Justice In The Streets