Loudon Wainwright III
40 Odd Years
Synopsis
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.
Product Information
Discs
5
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Production Date
Various
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Tracks
Track | Track Name | |
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1 | Westchester County | |
1 | So Damn Happy | |
1 | Weave Room Blues (with Kate McGarrigle) | |
1 | School Days | |
2 | I Don't Care | |
2 | I'm Alright | |
2 | Primrose Hill | |
2 | McSorley's | |
3 | Screaming Issue | |
3 | Bein' A Dad | |
3 | Black Uncle Remus (demo with band) | |
3 | Uptown | |
4 | Be Careful There's A Baby In The House | |
4 | Unhappy Anniversary | |
4 | Four Mirrors | |
4 | Funny Having Money | |
5 | Your Mother And I | |
5 | It's Love And I Hate It | |
5 | The Hardy Boys At The Y (with The Boys Of The Lough) | |
5 | Saw Your Name In The Paper | |
6 | Synchronicity | |
6 | Christmas Morning | |
6 | Laid | |
6 | Dead Skunk | |
7 | Hard Day On The Planet | |
7 | Pretty Good Day | |
7 | Outsidey | |
7 | New Paint | |
8 | You Don't Want To Know | |
8 | White Winos | |
8 | That Cat | |
8 | Drinking Song | |
9 | Bill Of Goods | |
9 | Bed | |
9 | Surfin' Queen (Jeff Layton demo) | |
9 | Swimming Song | |
10 | Thanksgiving | |
10 | Surviving Twin | |
10 | Newt | |
10 | Dilated To Meet You | |
11 | Your Father's Car | |
11 | The Shit Song | |
11 | 4X10 (Live at The Mystic Theater, Petaluma,CA) | |
11 | Down Drinking At The Bar | |
12 | The Man Who Couldn't Cry | |
12 | When I'm At Your House | |
12 | Between | |
12 | Somethin' Stupid (with Barry Humphries) | |
13 | Whatever Happened To Us? | |
13 | The Picture | |
13 | My Biggest Fan | |
13 | The Miles | |
14 | Crime Of Passion | |
14 | Men | |
14 | When You Leave | |
14 | So Good So Far (live from The Bottom Line) | |
15 | Kick In The Head | |
15 | So Many Songs | |
15 | Make Your Mother Mad | |
15 | Big Fish | |
16 | Summer's Almost Over | |
16 | Tip That Waitress | |
16 | Daughter | |
16 | No Sure Way | |
17 | Just Like President Thieu | |
17 | I'd Rather Be Lonely | |
17 | Grey In LA | |
17 | Hey There 2nd Grader | |
18 | Golfin' Blues | |
18 | April Fool's Day Morn | |
18 | Muse Blues | |
18 | More I Cannot Wish You | |
19 | The Heckler | |
19 | The Acid Song | |
19 | Motel Blues | |
19 | Florida (Lucky You) | |
20 | Natural Disaster | |
20 | IWIWAL | |
20 | The Deal | |
20 | Hank & Fred (live at KGSR, Austin, TX, December 5, 2003) | |
21 | Red Guitar | |
21 | A Year | |
21 | Rowena | |
21 | Your Eyes | |
22 | Hollywood Hopeful | |
22 | Dreaming | |
22 | High Wide & Handsome | |
22 | Dead Man | |
23 | IDTTYWLM | |
23 | At The End Of A Long Lonely Day (with Suzzy Roche) | |
24 | The Grammy Song | |
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