Pour Down Like Silver

Pour Down Like Silver was recorded in the summer of 1975 at Sound Techniques in London and produced by Richard Thompson and John Wood, who also engineered, for Island, with release in November 1975. Richard played guitar, mandolin, banjo, dulcimers, harmonium and electric piano and sang with Linda Thompson; Dave Mattacks and Timi Donald played drums, Dave Pegg and Pat Donaldson bass, John Kirkpatrick accordion and concertina, Ian Whiteman flute and shakuhachi, Aly Bain and Nic Jones fiddle, with Henry Lowther on trumpet, Clare Lowther on cello and Jack Brymer on clarinet. Track-level credits are not verified.

The album has "Streets of Paradise", "For Shame of Doing Wrong", "The Poor Boy Is Taken Away", "Night Comes In" (8:12), "Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair", "Beat the Retreat", "Hard Luck Stories" and a closing "Dimming of the Day / Dargai" (7:16). Robert Christgau called it semimiraculous in 2000 and gave it a B-plus in his Record Guide; the Encyclopedia of Popular Music gave it four stars out of five.