Product Description
40 Odd Years into an exceptionally prolific and storied career, Loudon Wainwright III is being celebrated with an aptly named career-spanning 4-CD/1-DVD box set, including a 40-page book, with an essay by renowned journalist/author David Wild and an introduction by filmmaker and box set co-producer Judd Apatow.

40 Odd Years features songs from throughout Wainwright’s career, including works of brilliance such as “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” from 1973’s Attempted Mustache, which Johnny Cash would record with producer Rick Rubin decades later, to the genuinely odd “Dead Skunk,” which became a #16 pop hit and thus a true novelty in the Wainwright canon, to highlights from his most recent projects, including cuts from the Grammy®-winning album High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project. The 3+ hour DVD includes an extremely rare documentary made for Dutch television entitled One Man Guy, TV appearances on the BBC, Saturday Night Live, and Austin City Limits, as well as several unreleased concert performances.

Famed comedy powerhouse Judd Apatow, who co-produced the set with Wainwright, and who credits the artist as a great influence on his own career, writes in his introduction “I wanted to do what he has always done: to be brutally honest, emotional, hilarious and sweet all at the same time. Whenever I wonder what my tone might be, if I am confused, I just listen to a Loudon Wainwright song.”

Regardless of prevailing trends or commercial pressures, Wainwright has always continued to follow his beautiful, often heartbreaking muse, no matter what the consequences. This is why his music endures, 23 albums and 40 odd years later, and why Loudon remains a true American treasure to this day.

It’s all enough to make you hope for another 40 Odd Years.

CD 1: 1969-1983
01 School Days
02 I Don’t Care
03 Uptown
04 Be Careful There’s A Baby In The House
05 Saw Your Name In The Paper
06 Dead Skunk
07 New Paint
08 Drinking Song
09 The Swimming Song
10 Dilated To Meet You
11 Down Drinking At The Bar
12 The Man Who Couldn’t Cry
13 Whatever Happened To Us?
14 Crime Of Passion
15 Kick In The Head
16 Summer’s Almost Over
17 Just Like President Thieu
18 Golfin’ Blues
19 The Heckler
20 Natural Disaster
21 Red Guitar
22 Hollywood Hopeful
23 DTTYWLM
24 The Grammy Song

CD 2: 1984-1995
01 Westchester County
02 I’m Alright
03 Screaming Issue
04 Unhappy Anniversary
05 Your Mother And I
06 Synchronicity
07 Hard Day On The Planet
08 You Don’t Want To Know
09 Bill Of Goods
10 Thanksgiving
11 Your Father’s Car
12 When I’m At Your House
13 The Picture
14 Men
15 So Many Songs
16 Tip That Waitress
17 I’d Rather Be Lonely
18 April Fool’s Day Morn
19 The Acid Song
20 IWIWAL
21 A Year
22 Dreaming

CD 3: 1996-2010
01 So Damn Happy
02 Primrose Hill
03 Bein’ A Dad
04 Four Mirrors
05 It’s Love And I Hate It
06 Christmas Morning
07 Pretty Good Day
08 White Winos
09 Bed
10 Surviving Twin
11 The Shit Song
12 Between
13 My Biggest Fan
14 When You Leave
15 Make Your Mother Mad
16 Daughter
17 Grey In L.A.
18 Muse Blues
19 Motel Blues
20 The Deal
21 Rowena
22 High Wide & Handsome

CD 4: Rare & Unreleased
01 Weave Room Blues - With Kate McGarrigle
02 McSorley’s
03 Black Uncle Remus [Demo]
04 Funny Having Money
05 The Hardy Boys At The Y - With The Boys Of The Lough
06 Laid [Live]
07 Outsidey [Live]
08 That Cat
09 Surfin’ Queen [Demo]
10 Newt
11 4X10 [Live]
12 Somethin’ Stupid - With Barry Humphries
13 The Miles [Live]
14 So Good So Far [Live]
15 Big Fish
16 No Sure Way
17 Hey There 2nd Grader
18 More I Cannot Wish You
19 Florida (Lucky You)
20 Hank & Fred [Live]
21 Your Eyes [Demo]
22 Dead Man
23 At The End Of A Long Lonely Day - With Suzzy Roche


DVD: Filmed Performances
01 One Man Guy [1993 Dutch television documentary]
02 BBC4 Sessions: Loudon Wainwright: One Man Guy [Filmed at Bush Hall, London, on May 2, 2005 - 4 Songs]
03 Loudon Wainwright III at The BBC [Aired on September 23, 2005 - 11 Songs]
04 Dead Man [Filmed on May 24, 2010; recording session documentary]
05 Entertainment Desk [Aired on Canadian television in 1995 - 1 Song with Martha Wainwright]
06 High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project [Filmed in 2009 for documentary on making of album]
07 The Basement [Filmed in Sydney, Australia in 2008 - 1 Song with Lucy Wainwright Roche]
08 Austin City Limits [5 Songs]
09 Saturday Night Live [Aired on NBC on November 15, 1975 - 2 Songs]
10 The Garfield House [Filmed on May 24, 2010 - 6 Songs]
11 826LA Benefit [Filmed on January 16, 2007 - 2 Songs]
12 PBS Soundstage [Aired on February 2, 1977 - 1 Song]
13 McCabe’s Guitar Shop [Filmed on February 3, 2007 - 1 Song]
14 The Mike Douglas Show [Aired on April 25, 1978 - Interview and 1 Song]
15 Nightline [Aired on ABC on June 22, 2005 - 1 Song]
16 Carrott Confidential [Aired on BBC on February 14, 1987 - 1 Song]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OAPF5M/?tag=imwan-20

1st 200 ordered from Shout! Factory - autographed by LWIII

Cost $ 48.99 + S&H

Bump: added product image and Amazon pre-order link to the first post.

This is a GREAT release...first 3 discs are all previously released - all great - but I could have come up with 3 others just as good.
DIsc 4 is worth the price of the entire box - Surfin Queen is a great tune - about the surfers GF being killed but he preserves her body and she becomes his best surf board.
The viedo disc is also great...

Only wish it was 4 discs of rare and unreleased material.

Nics booklet too - I also got booklet autographed by LWIII.