Richard Thompson's album Across a Crowded Room (his first album for a major label since Sunnyvista in ) stylistically picked up where his previous set, Hand of Kindness, had left off, and while it didn't break much in the way of new ground, it did find Thompson doing plenty of what he does best -- writing great songs and playing a lot of electric guitar/5(26).

"Across a Crowded Room" is one of his albums that followed in the backwash of a nasty breakup with his wife and musical partner Linda Thompson. As such, Thompson's idea of a love song is to sing "love letters you wrote are pushed down your throat, and leave you choking."/5(22).

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Richard Thompson 's album Across A Crowded Room (his first album for a major label since Sunnyvista in ) stylistically picked up where his previous set, Hand Of Kindness, had left off, and while it didn't break much in the way of new ground, it also found Thompson doing plenty of what he does best -- writing great songs and playing a lot of electric guitar.8/

This was the first Richard Thompson album to be released simultaneously on LP and CD. The LP track order (as well that on the subsequent BGO Records CD re-issue) is as follows: When The Spell Is Broken, You Don't Say, I Ain't Going To Drag My Feet No More, Love In A Faithless Country, Fire In The Engine Room, Walking Through A Wasted Land, Little Blue Number, She Twists The Knife Again, .

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Across A Crowded Room on Discogs. Label: Polydor - Y-1,Polydor - Y-1 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album • Country: US • Genre: Rock • Style: Folk Rock/5(19).

Across a Crowded Room: Live at Barrymore's delivers the audio if not the visuals from that performance, and captures Thompson and his band in great if not exceptional form.

Across a Crowded Room. () Daring Adventures. () Across a Crowded Room is the third solo album by Richard Thompson released in , on both vinyl and CD. As of , it remains his final collaboration with long-time producer Joe Boyd (who had produced Thompson's last four albums, including Shoot Out the Lights) as well as his last studio album to have been fully recorded in England.

Across a Crowded Room is the first Richard Thompson solo album in thirteen years to be released on a major label, and by any standard other than his own it’s a very fine record, replete with.