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 The album is called Recovery, explains Loudon Wainwright the Third, because re-recording songs he wrote back in the early 1970s feels like an archaeological dig – “unearthing dinosaur bones” as he puts it – and because ‘recovery’ means getting better, returning to health.
Whether Wainwright has ‘recovered’ from being the acerbic, acclaimed 24 year old who crash-landed on Planet Rock in 1970 is one of the questions raised by this engaging return to his early years. Its thirteen tracks are culled from the first four albums of a career that now stretches to 23, not to mention appearances in a dozen movies, a short residency on a TV soap opera (M.A.S.H) – and a stint as house singer-songwriter for Jasper Carrott in the late Eighties....full text |
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| Pastemagazine |
| With the help of producer Joe Henry, Loudon Wainwright III has been excavating his own past, and he’s disgorged some hibernating gems from his first four albums, revisiting ghosts that haunted him 35 years ago. But the acerbic singer—one time pretender to Dylan’s mighty throne, and pater familias of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright—didn’t just rehash his own history, he reinterpreted events from his messy biography, tearing the scabs off old wounds and letting them breathe fresh oxygen, turning his formerly sparse and spiny castigations about alcohol, diffident parenting and fame into something much more insightful and profound....full text |
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| Rollingstone |
| Having hired Loudon Wainwright III to compose a soundtrack for Knocked Up, director Judd Apatow is a stone fan of the singer-songwriter. On Recovery, which revisits material from Wainwright's nearly 40-year career, you can see why they get along. Like the filmmaker, Wainwright shows the male ego in all its needy, embarrassing glory; he's kind of like that naked dude in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. See "Motel Blues," a song Alex Chilton notably covered with Big Star. "I'll write a song for you, I'll put it on my next LP," Wainwright promises here, attempting to woo a young fan into bed; it's simultaneously pathetic, funny and tragic....full text |
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