[2018-09-14] Loudon Wainwright III "Years In The Making" 2CD compilation of rare and unreleased tracks (StorySound)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:16 pm

Description
Loudon Wainwright III's Years in the Making comprehends 45 years of offbeaten tracks - over two hours of rare and unissued Loudoniana. It's a 2-CD audiobiography, with orphaned album cuts, live recordings, radio appearances, home demos, and more. There's audio snapshots of his early folk efforts, with Kate McGarrigle, George Gerdes, and Steve Goodman, singing traditional songs and covering Woody Guthrie and, of all people, Bob Dylan. There's his 70s and 80s forays into the rock 'n' roll world, including Leiber and Stoller's "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and his own "I Wanna Be on MTV." There are featured appearances by Suzzy Roche, Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks, Chaim Tannenbaum, and David Mansfield, as well as by his sister Sloan, and all of his children, Rufus, Martha, Lucy, and Lexie.

The CDs are packaged in an elegant 60-page booklet. The wild creations of the brilliant young New Yorker magazine cartoonist Ed Steed are featured on the front and back covers, everywhere throughout the comprehensive credits text, and even on the discs, themselves. There are dozens of scans of documents, introspective musings, and artifacts from what Loudon calls his "swinging life," in addition to lovely paintings and drawings by friends and fans. Altogether, Years in the Making presents sides of Loudon you've never heard or seen before, a privileged perspective on his various public and private selves throughout his entire career.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Rosin the Bow
2. You Ain’t Going Nowhere (feat. Kate McGarrigle)
3. East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee (feat. Steve Goodman)
4. Everybody I Know
5. Philadelphia Lawyer
6. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
7. Love Gifts
8. Stewball
9. Floods of Tears
10. Station Break (feat. George Gerdes & Kate McGarrigle)
11. Have You Ever Been to Pittsburgh?
12. Two Song Set
13. Cardboard Boxes (feat. Chaim Tannenbaum)
14. Smokey Joe’s Cafe (feat. Slow Train)
15. You Hurt Me Mantra (feat. White Cloud)
16. Rambunctious
17. Wanna Be on MTV
18. Birthday Poem / Happy Birthday / Animal Song (feat. Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright & Lucy Wainwright)
19. Your Mother & I (feat. Bill Frisell)
20. Button Nose
21. The Ballad of Famous & Harper
22. Teenager’s Lament
23. Things

[CD2]
1. Unrequited to the Nth Degree (feat. Kate McGarrigle)
2. Ulcer
3. You Can’t Fail Me Now
4. No
5. Rowena (feat. Bill Frisell)
6. Cheatin’
7. IDTTYWLM
8. Down Where the Drunkards Roll
9. POW
10. Meet the Wainwrights (feat. Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy Roche, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright & Sloan Wainwright)
11. Liza Minnelli Interview
12. Hollywood Hopeful
13. Valley Morning
14. Trailer
15. God’s Got a Shit List
16. Thank You, Mr. Hubble
17. It Ain’t Gaza
18. Out of This World
19. Birthday Boy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F1TPSRN/?tag=imwan-20

Robert Meagher · 30 Sep 2006

THis is GREAT news.
He can probably do a dozen of these sets and not run out of material.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:03 am

A promo video for the track "Floods Of Tears":

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2018 12:44 pm

The pre-order price has dropped by more than $5, down to $14.49:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F1TPSRN/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:45 pm

This is coming out tomorrow! Check out these additional preview tracks:

[2018-09-14] Loudon Wainwright III "Years In The Making" 2CD compilation of rare and unreleased tracks (StorySound)

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