40 odd years [sound recording] / Loudon Wainwright III.
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MusicPublisher number: 826663-12189 | Shout! Factory826663-12190 | Shout! Factory826663-12191 | Shout! Factory826663-12192 | Shout! Factory826663-12193 | Shout! Factory826663-12194 | Shout! FactoryPublication details: Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, p2011.Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Forty odd years
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Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK Wainwright, Loudon | Available | 33111008306090 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Loudon Wainwright III has enjoyed a long, fruitiful career as a songwriter, performer, and actor. He's issued over 20 albums since his debut In 1970 (not including live or compilation records), and won a Grammy for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project. As an actor, he appeared on three episodes in the third season of M*A*S*H, played a sminal role on the sitcom Undeclared, and appeared in no less than seven feature films. The music and the man are the twin subject of 40 Odd Years, a generous, beautifullty chronicled four-CD/ one-DVD box set by Shout Factory. Wainwright's fans with be delighted by the 92 tracks included on the CDs, divided into chronlogical categories -- 1969-1983; 1984-1995; 1996-2010 -- with a fourth disc of rare and unreleased material included that features live tracks, demos, a beautiful duet with late ex-wife Kate McGarrigle on "Weave Room Blues," a collaboration with Ireland's Boys of the Lough on "The Hardy Boys at the Y," and "At the End of a Lonely Day" with Suzzy Roche. There's also a new track cut for the box entitled "Dead Man." The compilation discs include virtually everything a Wainwright aficionado could wish for; it reflects the dizzying diversity of his songwriting in folk, blues, and pop traditions. The DVD offers the biggest surprise, however. Clocking in at over three hours, it features the Dutch television documentary One Man Guy, numerous BBC TV appearances, American television appearances on Austin City Limits and Saturday Night Live, as well as previously unreleased filmed concert appearances. Mainstream music fans can question why an artist who had only one Top 20 hit ("Dead Skunk" from Album III in 1972) would warrant such treatment. It's a moot point. Wainwright has notched a particular place in music history as an irreverent (to say the least), often politically incorrect satirist and agent provocateur who refuses to take himself too seriously; he's a gifted, topical songwriter who embodies American music's rich roots traditions, and has had a fanatical cult following during each of the last five decades; the last being one of his most active. 40 Odd Years also includes an authoritative historical liner essay by David Wild, and an introduction by box set co-producer, filmmaker Judd Apatow (who has collaboraterd with Wainwright on numerous occasions). This is the grail for fans, but it also belongs in every American community library, and as part of any "required listening" cirriculum. ~ Thom Jurek
Compact discs; in box (31 cm.).
Folk-rock and popular music.
Principally previously released material.
Shout! Factory: 826663-12189 (826663-12190--826663-12193) (DVD: 826663-12194).
Disc 1, 1969-1983. School days ; I don't care ; Uptown ; Be careful there's a baby in the house ; Saw your name in the paper ; Dead skunk ; New paint ; Drinking song ; The swimming song ; Dilated to meet you ; Down drinking at the bar ; The man who couldn't cry ; Whatever happened to us? ; Crime of passion ; Kick in the head ; Summer's almost over ; Just like President Thieu ; Golfin' blues ; The heckler ; Natural disaster ; Red guitar ; Hollywood hopeful ; IDTTYWLM ; The Grammy song -- Disc 2, 1984-1995. Westchester County ; I'm alright ; Screaming issue ; Unhappy anniversary ; Your mother and I ; Synchronicity ; Hard day on the planet ; You don't want to know ; Bill of goods ; Thanksgiving ; Your father's car ; When I'm at your house ; The picture ; Men ; So many songs ; Tip that waitress ; I'd rather be lonely ; April Fool's Day morn ; The acid song ; IWIWAL ; A year ; Dreaming -- Disc 3, 1996-2010. So damn happy ; Primrose Hill ; Bein' a dad ; Four mirrors ; It's love and I hate it ; Christmas morning ; Pretty good day ; White winos ; Bed ; Surviving twin ; The shit song ; Between ; My biggest fan ; When you leave ; Make your mother mad ; Daughter ; Grey in L.A. ; Muse blues ; Motel blues ; The deal ; Rowena ; High wide & handsome -- Disc 4, Rare & unreleased. Weave room blues (with Kate McGarrigle) ; McSorley's ; Black Uncle Remus (demo) ; Funny having money ; The Hardy Boys at the Y (with the Boys of the Lough) ; Laid (live) ; Outsidey (live) ; That cat ; Surfin' queen (demo) ; Newt ; 4X10 (live) ; Somethin' stupid (with Barry Humphries) ; The miles (live) ; So good so far (live) ; Big fish ; No sure way ; Hey there 2nd grader ; More I cannot wish you ; Florida (Lucky you) ; Hank & Fred (live) ; Your eyes (demo) ; Dead man ; At the end of a
DVD, Filmed performances. One man guy (1993 Dutch television documentary) -- BBC 4 sessions : Loudon Wainwright, one man guy (filmed at Bush Hall, London, May 2, 2005). One man guy ; Heaven ; When you leave ; Half fist -- Loudon Wainwright III at the BBC (aired Sept. 23, 2005). Reciprocity ; Roll in my sweet baby's arms ; Unrequited to the nth degree ; Dump the dog and feed the garbage ; Glad to see you've got religion ; Motel blues ; Rufus is a tit man ; Cardboard boxes ; Thanksgiving ; Hitting you ; Career moves -- Dead man recording session documentary, filmed on May 24, 2010 -- Entertainment desk, aired on Canadian television in 1995. The end has begun (with Martha Wainwright) -- High wide & handsome : the Charlie Poole project, filmed in 2009 for documentary on the making of album. My mother and my sweetheart (with Rufus Wainwright) -- The basement, filmed in 2008 in Sydney, Australia. Needless to say (with Lucy Wainwright Roche) -- Austin city limits. Lullaby (recorded Jan. 13, 1988) ; Living alone ; Homeless ; Tonya's twirls ; OGM (recorded Feb. 16, 1999) -- Saturday night live, aired on NBC on November 15, 1975. Bicentennial ; Unrequited to the nth degree -- The Garfield House, filmed on May 24, 2010. New paint (with Joe Henry & Greg Leisz) ; Absence makes the heart grow fonder (with Joe Henry & Greg Leisz) ; Roll in my sweet baby's arms (with Christopher Guest) ; June apple (with Christopher Guest) ; Unhappy anniversary (with Christopher Guest) ; Kings and queens (with George Gerdes) -- 826LA benefit, filmed on January 16, 2007. Grey in L.A. ; Daughter -- PBS soundstage, aired on February 2, 1977. Kick in the head -- McCabe's Guitar Shop, filmed on February 3, 2007. Passion play -- The Mike Douglas show, aired on April 25, 1978. Interview ; and, Fear with flying -- Nightline, aired on ABC on June 22, 2005. A father and a son
Loudon Wainwright III, vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, percussion, ukulele ; with additional musicians.