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Reviews: AllMusic The AV Club BBC Music The Guardian Lucid Culture Metacritic (Aggregated reviews)
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Personnel: Richard Thompson (vocals, electric guitar, steel-string acoustic guitar, mandolin, accordion, tin whistle, autoharp, harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, electric organ, handclaps on Sneaky Boy); Michael Hays (rhythm guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals); Danny Thompson (double bass); Taras Prodaniuk (electric bass guitar); Michael Jerome (drums, percussion); Judith Owen (backing vocals, handclaps on Sneaky Boy); Sara Watkins (fiddle on Dad's Gonna Kill Me, Johnny's Far Away, Guns Are the Tongues)
Joe Sublett (tenor saxophone on Bad Monkey, Francesca); Joe Buck (first violin She Sang Angels to Rest); Al Michaels (second violin She Sang Angels to Rest); Novi Ola (viola on She Sang Angels to Rest); Simon Tassano and Chris Kasych - handclaps (handclaps on Sneaky Boy)