TracksTime Will Show the Wiser, Meet on the Ledge, Genesis Hall, Crazy Man Michael, Sloth, Roll Over Vaughn Williams, The Poor Ditching Boy, The Angels Took My Racehorse Away, The Great Valerio, When I Get to the Border, Withered and Died, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Down Where the Drunkards Roll, The Calvary Cross, I'll Regret It All in the Morning, Old Man Inside a Young Man, For Shame of Doing Wrong, Night Comes in, Dimming of the Day/Dargai, A Heart Needs a Home, Don't Let a Thief Steal Into Your Heart, Strange Affair, Sunnyvista, Sisters, Rockin' in Rhythm, Did She Jump or Was She Pushed, Man in Need, Shoot Out the Lights, Wall of Death, Walking on a Wire, Tear Stained Letter, How I Wanted to, Hand of Kindness, Beat the Retreat [Live], I Ain't Going to Drag My Feet No More, Little Blue Number, She Twists the Knife Again, Valerie, Turning of the Tide, I Still Dream, Waltzing's for Dreamers, Read About Love, I Feel So Good, I Misunderstood, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Put Your Trust in Me, From Galway to Graceland [Live], I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life, MGB-GT, Mingus Eyes, Beeswing, Taking My Business Elsewere, King of Bohemia, Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me [Live], Razor Dance [Voltage Enhanced][Version], Hide It Away [Voltage Enhanced][Version], Last Shift, Big Chimney, Lotteryland, Persuasion [Live], Cooksferry Queen, Bathsheba Smiles, Hard on Me [Live], Gethsemane, A Love You Can't Survive, A Legal Matter [Live], Grizzly Man (Main Titles), Al Bowlly's in Heaven [Live], I'll Never Give It Up, Dad's Gonna Kill Me, She Sang Angels to Rest
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NotesThe new 4-CD set WALKING ON a WIRE: 1968-2009 covers every phase of Richard Thompson's career, beginning with the trail- blazing folk-rock group Fairport Convention, to his duo albums with then-wife Linda Thompson, as well as his 20-plus years as a critically acclaimed solo artist. The songs chosen for this selection of his box set were carefully assembled and cover a wide range of styles - rock 'n' roll with folk, jazz, rockabilly and the odd waltz and soundtrack theme thrown in - the scope of his songwriting, and the sheer virtuosity of his playing. Compiled by Richard Thompson himself, Walking on a Wire includes material from every album he has released. Named one of the Top 20 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone, the British folk-rock legend is one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. Thompson's songs have been covered by R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, and many others.