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Loudon Wainwright III - Haven't Got The Blues Yet (2014) [email protected] Beolab1700
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Loudon Wainwright III - Haven't Got The Blues (Yet)
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Artist...............: Loudon Wainwright III
Album................: Haven't Got The Blues (Yet)
Genre................: Blues
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.92
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 30/07/2014
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Tracklisting
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1. Loudon Wainwright III - Brand New Dance [03:30]
2. Loudon Wainwright III - Spaced [03:49]
3. Loudon Wainwright III - In A Hurry [05:11]
4. Loudon Wainwright III - Depression Blues [03:42]
5. Loudon Wainwright III - The Morgue [01:49]
6. Loudon Wainwright III - Harmless [03:30]
7. Loudon Wainwright III - Man & Dog [03:50]
8. Loudon Wainwright III - Harlan County [02:58]
9. Loudon Wainwright III - I Knew Your Mother [02:48]
10. Loudon Wainwright III - Looking At The Calendar [03:09]
11. Loudon Wainwright III - I'll Be Killing You This Christmas[03:28]
12. Loudon Wainwright III - God & Nature [03:23]
13. Loudon Wainwright III - Haven't Got The Blues (Yet) [03:19]
14. Loudon Wainwright III - Last Day Of The Year [02:17]
Playing Time.........: 46:48
Total Size...........: 112.75 MB
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Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet) or HGTB(Y), for short, is the 26th album in the long and illustrious career of Loudon Wainwright III. It follows his acclaimed Older Than My Old Man Now album from 2012—“my death n’ decay opus,” as Wainwright calls it. Due for release on the 28th July, the new album sees Loudon broadening his scope with a 14-song, genre-bounding set (“eclectricity,” he calls it) dealing with varied subject matter including depression, drinking, senior citizenship, gun control, heartbreak, pet ownership and New York City’s arcane practice of alternate side-of-the-street parking.
Uproariously rocking lead track ‘Brand New Dance’, which evokes The Big Bopper’s classic ‘Chantilly Lace’, is “me moaning and groaning about the horror and embarrassment of personal physical diminishment in the wider context of the world in which we live today,” Wainwright states. Continuing this theme, ‘The Morgue’, which Judd Apatow originally commissioned for Wainwright’s dysfunctional dad character to sing to Adam Sandler in an episode of Undeclared, finds “death and decay meeting shit love,” he says.
Likewise, ‘Harlan County’ was written as a theme song for the TV show Justified, and also like ‘The Morgue’, was rejected. Wainwright’s version on HGTB(Y), however, features the beautiful vocal harmonies of singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan. The backup vocals of Wainwright’s daughter Martha, meanwhile, appropriately grace “I Knew Your Mother.”
Other cuts of special Wainwright interest include ‘Man & Dog’, which was motivated by his dog Harry (the inspiration of other Wainwright ditties, including, he says, his yet-to-be-recorded ‘Puppy Hate’), and ‘Spaced’, a klezmer/Balkan gypsy-styled look at that alternate street parking theme. He takes a typically topical turn on ‘God & Nature’ (“A bit of Episcopalian gospel composed after watching the 2012 Vice Presidential Debates”) and his new seasonal favorite, ‘I’ll Be Killing You This Christmas’, which he actually wrote in response to the Newtown shootings.
Wainwright notes that he toyed with the idea of calling the album Town & Country, then saw the cover photo of the famous forlorn clown Emmet Kelly, after which “Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)” became the title track. Another standout track, ‘Depression Blues’, invokes such great blues men as Blind Lemon Jefferson and Sleepy John Estes, not to mention Shakespeare and “old Sigmund.”
Producing HGTB(Y) was Wainwright’s long time musical collaborator David Mansfield, who has backed him on numerous previous recordings as instrumentalist/arranger, including the 2010 Grammy Award winning High Wide & Handsome-The Charlie Poole Project. “I got to know L’il Davey about 23 years ago, on a flight back from Vancouver — I think — to New York,” Wainwright recalls. “I’ve worked on and off with him ever since, on TV, in the recording studio, and on the road. He’s been featured as a player and arranger on some of my best records including History, Grown Man, Last Man on Earth, and High Wide & Handsome.” Other top players grace HGTB(Y), and include ace banjoist Tony Trischka, saxophonist Steve Elson, drummer Sammy Merendino, bassist Tim Luntzel, and another longtime musical cohort, Chaim Tannenbaum, on background vocals.
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