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Loudon Wainwright's third album marked a major change in production approach, which is to say that there was one; Wainwright's first two releases were solo acoustic affairs. But with famed producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye on board, Album III featured full-band backing from some of the best session players around (David Sanborn, Hugh McCracken, etc.), and consequently, a move toward folk rock. Perhaps not coincidentally, the album earned Wainwright his first and only Top 40 single, "Dead Skunk," a country-flavored tune about grievously aromatic roadkill that became a novelty hit. While humor has always been a key element in Wainwright's artistic arsenal, he usually takes a more ironic approach, as on "Red Guitar," where he mocks the rock-star guitar-smashing tradition, or "Muse Blues," a sarcasm-soaked take on the search for inspiration. But as the affecting, irony-free ballad "Needless to Say" makes clear, Wainwright's also entirely capable of playing it straight any time it suits his fancy.

Tracklisting

  • Dead Skunk
  • Red Guitar
  • East Indian Princess
  • Muse Blues
  • Hometeam Crowd
  • B Side
  • Needless To Say
  • Smokey Joe's Cafe
  • New Paint
  • Trilogy (Circa 1967)
  • Drinking Song
  • Say That You Love Me
Citizen Of Glass
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No Singles
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Nirvana
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Come Away With ESG
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The Remote Part
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Chutes Too Narrow
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Thirteen
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Blue Banisters
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Crazy Rhythms
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Wild Mood Swings
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Harry Pussy
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Charmed Life
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Liquid Skin
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The Age Of Quarrel
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Brain Telephone
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IV (White Vinyl)
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Fire From Heaven
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Left Hand
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Candle Power
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Galaxilympics
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3
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Someone To Watch Over Me
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Yellow House
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Favourite People
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Bad Advice Good People
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The Dragon Flies Away
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We (Picture Disc)
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Choose Life
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Gulp!
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Angel
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Private Sector
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Drecksound
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(Self-Titled)
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