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History (CD)

By: Loudon Wainwright III (Artist)
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DISC 1 for History (CD) Album By Loudon Wainwright III (Artist)
1   People In Love
2   Men
3   Picture, The
4   When I'm At Your House
5   Doctor, The
6   Hitting You
7   I'd Rather Be Lonely
8   Between
9   Talking New Bob Dylan
10   So Many Songs
11   4 x 10
12   Father And A Son, A
13   Sometimes I Forget
14   Handful Of Dust, A
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (3/4/93, p.64) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...An intimate, painfully honest album...inspired...unforgettable..."
Entertainment Weekly (1/7/93, p.124) - Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 10 Albums Of 1992.
Entertainment Weekly (11/20/92, p.90) - "..One of the strongest albums in this consummately witty, honest singer-songwriter's two-decade career...a small masterpiece.." - Rating: A
Musician (2/93, p.89) - "...Wainwright's finest album in 22 years...[his] shining moment of personal introspection...tremendous..."
Audio Magazine (3/93, p.86) - Sound: A- / Performance: A- - "...an intense and revealing ride....one of Loudon's best..."

Title Note

Additional personnel: The Roches, The McGarrigles, Syd Straw.

The title of this Loudon Wainwright album refers not to a look back at the singer/songwriter's career, but to his own life, a place that has proven a rich source for some of Wainwrigth's finest material over the years. "The Picture" examines the way that the passage of time has affected his own family. "Hitting You" is a chilling recollection of an incident in which Wainwright struck one of his children in a rash fit of anger. That the incident has remained so vivid is a testament his continued undiminished self-disgust over a moment that took place decades prior. Wainwright captures a sense of our common humanity in both that moment and the enduring memory. "Talking New Bob Dylan" takes a typically humorous look at the fact that Wainwright was branded a "new Bob Dylan" when he emerged around 1970 (a fate which befell scores of guitar-toting male singer/songwriters at the time).

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