Shoot Out the Lights

by Richard & Linda Thompson

Shoot Out the Lights cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Hannibal
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 38:19
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded as their marriage was collapsing, Richard and Linda Thompson's final collaborative album is a remarkably poignant, searing document of romantic dissolution. Driven by Richard's virtuosic, intensely expressive guitar playing and Linda's haunting vocals, 'Shoot Out the Lights' is a deeply melancholic, bittersweet masterpiece of British folk rock.

Genres

Descriptors: breakup, existential, melodic, duet, british, male-vocals, female-vocals, acoustic, folk

Tracklist

  1. Don't Renege on Our Love (4:18)
  2. Walking on a Wire (5:28)
  3. Man in Need (3:36)
  4. Just the Motion (6:19)
  5. Shoot out the Lights (5:24)
  6. Back Street Slide (4:33)
  7. Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? (4:56)
  8. Wall of Death (3:42)

Credits

  • Richard Thompson - primary artist, written-by, guitar, accordion, dulcimer [hammered], lead vocals
  • Clive Gregson - backing vocals
  • Pete Zorn - backing vocals, bass
  • The Watersons - backing vocals
  • Dave Pegg - bass
  • Brian Jones - cornet
  • Stephen Corbett - cornet
  • Bill Smith - design
  • Dave Mattacks - drums
  • Bill Gill - engineer
  • Linda Thompson - lead vocals
  • Jo Lustig Ltd. - management
  • Gered Mankowitz - photography by
  • Joe Boyd - producer
  • Mark Cutts - trombone
  • Stephen Barnett - trombone
  • Phil Goodwin - tuba

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