Ducknapped! is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Richard Thompson recorded during the 2003 tour to support the The Old Kit Bag

The Old Kit Bag

The Old Kit Bag is an album released in 2003 by British guitarist Richard Thompson. The title refers to the World War I marching song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag". When asked if the album had a theme, Thompson had no immediate answer, then said "I suppose the title is a theme of sorts...

album and released on Thompson's boutique Beeswing label.

The title is derived from the joke 'ducknapping' of the tour mascot, a stuffed duck, and the subsequent backstage appearance of cod ransom notes.

Would be purchasers should note that none of the tracks on this album are included on the Live In Providence DVD which was shot on the same tour. Live In Providence features Rory MacFarlane on bass guitar

Bass guitar

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 and double bass

Double bass

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. Danny Thompson

Danny Thompson

Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...

 (no relation) was first call for the 2003 tour and plays on most tracks on this album, but after he was taken ill MacFarlane replaced him.

Track listing

All songs composed by Richard Thompson

1. "Gethsemane"
2. "Pearly Jim"
3. "Outside of the Inside"
4. "Missie How You Let Me Down"
5. "A Love You Can't Survive"
6. "One Door Opens"
7. "I’ll Tag Along"
8. "Bank Vault In Heaven"
9. "She Said It Was Destiny"
10. "I Misunderstood"
11. "Valerie"
12. "Can't Win"
13. "Jealous Words"
14. "Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen"

Personnel

• Richard Thompson - guitar
  Guitar
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   and vocals
  Singing
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• Earl Harvin
  Earl Harvin
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   - drums
  Drum kit
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   and dumbek
• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
   - double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Judith Owen - backing vocals on One Door Opens, Jealous Words and Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen.
• Christine Collister
  Christine Collister
  Christine Collister is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.Prior to this, in...
  
   - backing vocals on Bank Vault In Heaven and Can't Win
• Rory MacFarlane - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Pete Zorn
  Pete Zorn
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   - backing vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
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   and bass flute
  Bass flute
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