{"id":87467,"date":"2024-05-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87467"},"modified":"2024-05-02T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:16:23","slug":"til-i-shine-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87467","title":{"rendered":"Til I Shine In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the best albums you&#8217;ve never heard &#8211; <em>I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight<\/em> by Richard and Linda Thompson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5cf2153faf46af0001ff8879\/24d32da7-a8aa-41c2-83a9-5eabc0039d82\/image-asset.jpeg?format=1000w\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How do describe the record?  Let&#8217;s take a run at it:  Eccentric Celtic folk-rock via the Byrds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their marital breakup was inadvertently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4901\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4901\">chronicled eight years later on <em>Shoot Out the Lights<\/em><\/a> &#8211; but this was their breakthrough, creatively if not commercially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; for those who <em>are <\/em>in the know, here are the Thompsons (their daughter does the talking for Linda, who&#8217;s suffered from dysphonia for quite a while now &#8211; a serious tragedy for one of the best singers of her era) talking about the making of the record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone wp-block-embed-megaphone\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Making of I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT - feat. Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=THI2680549848&#038;wmode=opaque#?secret=8GcZewr9Gq\" data-secret=\"8GcZewr9Gq\" width=\"670\" height=\"200\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard the album?  You&#8217;re not alone.  Do yourself a favor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the best albums you&#8217;ve never heard &#8211; I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson. How do describe the record? Let&#8217;s take a run at it: Eccentric Celtic folk-rock via the Byrds? Their marital breakup was inadvertently chronicled eight years later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87478,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87467\/revisions\/87478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}