Richard & Linda Thompson - album I want to see the bright lights tonight 1974

"I want to see the bright lights tonight" released in 1974 was the first album born from the artistic partnership between the refined guitarist Richard Thompson and the echanting crystalline and palpitating mezzo-soprano voice of the newly married Linda Peters. Thrilling and adventurous music and lyrics, sounds part electric and part acoustic, dark and vaguely intellectuals. The lyrics are suburban frescoes of a unity made up of beggars, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, violent fathers, rough and petty people. Recurring themes are death, with some traces of fatalism as well as some compassion.

Linda Thompson - vocals.
Richard Thompson - guitar, vocals, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, piano,
The CWS Silver Band - instruments & vocals.
harmonium, tin whistle.
John Kirkpatrick - accordion, concertina.
Brian Gulland, Richard Harvey - krummhorn.
Simon Nicol - dilcimer.
Pat Donaldson - bass.
Royston Wood - harmony bass vocals.
Trevor Lucas - harmony vocals.
Timi Donald - drums.

When I get to the botder.
The Calvary Cross.
Withered and died.
I want to see the bright lights tonight.
Down where the drunkards roll.
We sing hallelujah.
Has he got a friend for me.
The little beggar girl.
The end of the rainbow.
The Great Valerio.