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"Dimming of the Day" is a song written by Richard Thompson and performed with his then-wife Linda Thompson on the 1975 album Pour Down Like Silver.
It has been covered by the Irish band The Corrs for their Irish-themed fifth studio album Home. Other notable covers include those by Bonnie Raitt, Mary Black, Emmylou Harris, and the Blind Boys of Alabama. It was also featured, performed by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in John Sayles' 1999 film Limbo, being notable as marking an important story beat. The latest version is by Alison Krauss & Union Station on their album Paper Airplane. A new duet version is on the debut album of singer/actress Anastasia Barzee.
The song was also covered by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour 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 introduced the song as "this one's got nothing what-so-ever to do with me but I like it. It's by Richard Thompson and it's called Dimming of the Day."
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