Loudon Wainwright III Years In The Making CD

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.

Tracklisting

CD 1

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. 2 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, Martha & Lucy Wainwright)

19. Your Mother & I (feat. Bill Frisell)

20. Button Nose

21. The Ballad Of Famous & Harper

22. Teenager's Lament

23. Things

CD 2

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.  Idttywim

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