More Love Songs
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More Love Songs is a 1986 album by Loudon Wainwright III
released on Rounder Records
. Wainwright had moved to England, and this was the second album produced by (and featuring) Richard Thompson. Critically and popularly it is probably considered the peak of his 1980s renaissance. After three albums in four years, it would be another three years before he released the largely ignored Therapy.
The style of the album combines purely acoustic staples like "Your Mother and I" with piano-driven ballads like "The Back Nine" and full-blown rockers like "Vampire Blues" and "Hard Day on the Planet". Wainwright also careens emotionally from the sad "Overseas Call" to the laugh-out-loud "Synchronicity".
Wainwright also enjoyed a period of popularity as a regular on The Jasper Carrott
Show in the UK, and many of the songs from his following album were written during this time as well as some (still) unreleased ones.
By the late 1980s Wainwright was back in the USA.
Produced by Richard Thompson, Chaim Tannenbaum, Paul Charles and Loudon Wainwright III.
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.To...
released on Rounder Records
Rounder Records
Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...
. Wainwright had moved to England, and this was the second album produced by (and featuring) Richard Thompson. Critically and popularly it is probably considered the peak of his 1980s renaissance. After three albums in four years, it would be another three years before he released the largely ignored Therapy.
The style of the album combines purely acoustic staples like "Your Mother and I" with piano-driven ballads like "The Back Nine" and full-blown rockers like "Vampire Blues" and "Hard Day on the Planet". Wainwright also careens emotionally from the sad "Overseas Call" to the laugh-out-loud "Synchronicity".
Wainwright also enjoyed a period of popularity as a regular on The Jasper Carrott
Jasper Carrott
Jasper Carrott OBE is a British comedian, actor, television presenter and personality.-Early life:...
Show in the UK, and many of the songs from his following album were written during this time as well as some (still) unreleased ones.
By the late 1980s Wainwright was back in the USA.
Track listing
- "Hard Day On The Planet" – 4:48
- "Synchronicity" – 3:20
- "Your Mother And I" – 2:33
- "I Eat Out" – 1:53
- "No" – 3:42
- "The Home Stretch" – 3:48
- "The Acid Song" – 4:33 (not included on the LP version)
- "Unhappy Anniversary" – 2:54
- "Man's World" – 5:28
- "Vampire Blues" – 2:55
- "Overseas Call" – 4:04
- "Expatriate" – 2:17
- "The Back Nine" – 4:04
Personnel
- Loudon Wainwright III - guitar, percussion, vocals
- Arran Ahmun - percussion
- Martin Brinsford - percussion
- Martin CarthyMartin CarthyMartin Carthy MBE is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days...
- guitar, mandolin, vocals - Richard Cheetham - trombone
- Howard EvansHoward EvansHoward Evans, , was a British trumpeter.Having played in the band of the Welsh Guards and the London Symphony Orchestra, Evans moved into theatre work. He was a member of the line-up of the Albion Band which played for 'Larkrise' at the National Theatre...
- trumpet - Peter Filleul - keyboards
- Christopher Guest - synthesizer
- John Kirkpatrick - accordion, vocals
- Dave MattacksDave MattacksDave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist...
- drums - Ruari McFarlane - bass
- Brian McNeill - fiddle
- Alan Reid - synthesizer
- Chaim Tannenbaum - banjo, harmonica, saxophone, vocals
- Danny ThompsonDanny ThompsonDaniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
- bass - Richard Thompson - guitar, mandolin, vocals
- Beckie Burns, Christine CollisterChristine CollisterChristine Collister is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.Prior to this, in...
, Maria MuldaurMaria MuldaurMaria Muldaur is a folk-blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s...
, Linda Taylor - additional vocals
Produced by Richard Thompson, Chaim Tannenbaum, Paul Charles and Loudon Wainwright III.
Release history
- LP: Rounder 3106 (U.S.)
- LP: Demon FIEND79 (UK)
- CD: Rounder 3106
- CD: Demon FIENDCD79 (UK)