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"Dimming of the Day" is a song written by Richard Thompson and performed with his then-wife Linda Thompson on their 1975 album Pour Down Like Silver. ^[1] Acoustic version can be found on Richard Thompson's 1996 album Acoustic Classics.

Covers

Dimming of the Day has been covered by, amongst other artists:

• The Corrs for their Irish-themed fifth studio album Home
• Bonnie Raitt on her 1994 album Longing in Their Hearts
• Mary Black on her 1991 album Babes In The Wood
• Emmylou Harris
• Alfie Boe from his album Trust, featuring Shawn Colvin
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
• The song also featured, performed by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, in John Sayles' 1999 film Limbo
• Pink Floyd's David Gilmour played the song in 2002 at his semi-acoustic shows in London's Royal Festival Hall; it was released on his David Gilmour in Concert DVD where he introduces the song: "This one's got nothing whatsoever to do with me but I like it. It's by Richard Thompson and it's called Dimming of the Day."
• The Dutch musician Gerard van Maasakkers recorded a version with a text in Brabantine, a Dutch dialect, As 't Dalijk Donker is (on his CD Zicht, 2006)
• Tom Jones performed the song in a concert broadcast by BBC4 and also on his 2012 album Spirit in the Room
• Alison Krauss & Union Station on their album Paper Airplane
• A new duet version is on the debut album of singer-actress Anastasia Barzee, and the album takes the name of this song^{[ citation needed]}

See also

• The Dawning of the Day

References

External links

• Dimming Of The Day / Dargai on YouTube (provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group)