I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Very easy listening. Title track is the most energetic for sure.

i don*t like country

I was a bit bored at first but it grew on me. Some great melancholy folk songs. The ones Linda sings are the best, particularly the title track and “The Great Valero.” At some point I was thinking “Mark Lanegan must have lived this record” and sure enough “Together Again” in the bonus tracks is a tune he covered.

winter sounds

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight is an album that is perfectly fine for what it does. When i first saw this, i thought that it was gonna be a live album but as it turns out, even though there are a few live recordings of some of the songs on the 2004 CD, it was still very much a studio album. As an album itself, like i said, it's perfectly fine. It's your typical folk/country romp with all the things you would expect from this genre. The music as well as both Richard and Linda's voices which were the main highlight of this album. I really can't think of anything all too negative to say but nothing overly positive either. It's a good album and nothing else.
Best Song: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Worst Song: We Sing Hallelujah

First listen. Electro-folk music….kind of liking it. Sounds very very 70s in production, but that’s cool by me.

Enjoyed it. Will listen again.
3

Generally pleasant enough folk music, although i didn’t enjoy the songs that strayed into electric like I want to see the bright lights.
A bit too trad folk for me overall

My Mum loves Richard Thompson's voice. Me, I don't get it. I like Linda's though.

This was a perfectly fine folk album but I have little to say about it, either positive or negative. Would have been a 2.5, but I can't stretch to 3, so:

2/5

some of the instrumentation brought an interesting edge to what I expect out of folk music, but I found the singing to be pretty rough for the most part. I don’t see the magic in this one.

standouts: The Cavalry Cross • I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

A perfectly fine but not at all exciting listen.

I sort of understand people reviewing with words like 'nice' on a single first listen but they clearly haven't tuned into the lyrics much. End of the Rainbow has to be the bleakest thing ever written and most of the rest aren't any sunnier. I love it I sought out the extended version. Treat yourself and look for a live version of Calvary Cross. Not on the extended version of this. The comp Guitar, Vocals might be on your streamer.

Yeah this is not for me.

I usually dislike folk music. But this was better than most. They had some good harmonies, avoided the ren faire sound that I can’t stand. Lyrics were interesting. I was pleasantly surprised not to hate it.

Terrible. I only made it halfway through the third track before I had to stop listening. Folk and country at its worst. 1/5

Ah, another nice and warm sounding recording.
Nothing like the ‘70s to envelope you in its analogue methods!
I’m only a little bit familiar with Richard Thompson and always heard about his albums with Linda so it was great to finally get a chance to hear one.
Having spent some time with the albums of Sandy Denny a few years back this album really put me back in that sort of vibe.
Once again I don’t usually gravitate to folk based music but I really enjoyed this one as well.
There’s a sort of nostalgic sentiment to these songs in the lyrics, vocals and chord progressions over a lot of slow and steady tempos.
I’m guessing that there’s some sort of a British folk sound here in the way the songs are written and performed.
Definitely going to check out their other albums and though I’ve heard of Fairport Convention I haven’t spent much time with that band either so here’s hoping there’s one coming in the pipeline but if not I do hope to get there one day as well.

Class album.

This definitely isn't my thing. I dislike the parts that were more celtic or country sounding a lot. The folky parts were ok.

Lovely album, a great surprise for me since I didn't knew nothing about it nor the artists. 5/5, couldn't be any other way

This is by Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson. As I write this review her name isn't listed. I have asked for it to be corrected.

Initially I was a little disappointed, thinking it was not as good and not as coherent as Fairport Convention, but the songwriting is super strong, and it's still good