On the Shore

Part of the album was recorded at Island Studios with the engineer Roger Quested. The sleeve is by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis, photographed at the Hill Garden at Inverforth House in Hampstead, and Tony Cox played bass on "Sally Free and Easy", recorded live in one take according to Unwin Brown; Michael Jefferies played harp on "While the Iron Is Hot". Barry Clarke credited Richard Thompson with leading everyone down the path of the English lead guitar style. The 2007 deluxe edition added remixes of seven tracks, the 1971 BBC session "Forest Fire" and the 1970 demo "Little Black Cloud".