We Sing Hallelujah, by Richard and Linda Thompson.
This song is probably, maybe, but not promised to in fact be, the last Richard and Linda Thompson song of this project. I had a list of other songs from this record to do, and this one popped into my head, so here it is. Not sure this is exactly the right key, but it worked for me.
When I Get To The Border, by Richard and Linda Thompson.
This song is the first on what might’ve been the first Richard and Linda Thompson album I heard, on a tape I probably mentioned last time. It deserves a second guitar track, or harmonica or something, but this is it for the night.
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275 down?? 90 days to go, a clean quarter of the year left.
Night Comes In, by Richard and Linda Thompson.
A love song for Valentine’s Day.
This song still give me chills, even if it takes me back to the most cliché teenage relationships and pay phones and even to the extra bedroom at my grandparents’ house where we lived for the first couple months of my senior year of high school, toward the tail end of a teenage relationship, and I was teaching myself this song, probably off of the tape made for me by the guy at the first record store I worked at who insisted I listen to Pour Down Like Silver and I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight and here it is 28 years later, and well over 40 years since this music was written, and goodness it’s powerful stuff.
One take, a second vocal, and a software keyboard, but this deserves an electric guitar track if I come back to it.