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A Live One

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...random things (like suicide, drinking, etc). Some of the sad songs are a little humorous and others are serious and moving. All are entertaining. I find this to be one of the LWIII albums I can listen to the most (I'm the sort of person who listends to a lot of music but has trouble listening to an album more than twice a week even if it's great and I just got it).

Go on, give it a try.

I didn't realize this was available on CD. I've had it on vinyl for about 20 years, (since before I got my first CD player.) I absolutely love this album! It's probably not for everyone, but what real art is? If you're already familiar with Loudon, but haven't heard this, you really have to get it. If you're not familiar with him, I recommend this one to anyone who appreciates funny, very personal, and extremely well-performed folk music. This is a real gem.

Whenever I come into my local record store, they are starting to know me as the guy who keeps special ording the Loudon albums. It started a few weeks ago when I was trying to remember a song that I used to play in college. Well I bought Unrequited thinking that it was on that, and WOW I had forgotten what a great album that was, then I bought Attempted, and WOW, I had forgotten what a great album that was. I just got this and if you are a Loudon fan--just get it, that's all--it's good, really really good.

Loudon's career was at a nadir at this point, and his anger about that definitely shows on this CD. He had gone from being a critic's darling, an SNL-worthy celeb, a "product" people were willing to throw money at to find the right packaging to wind up a guy who had (and still has, amazingly) trouble holding on to a label.

I was no LW3 novice when I first heard this album and still, I found it rather shocking in places. There's a little too much "feeling" in songs like "A Clockwork Chartreuse" and "The Suicide Song"--not to mention an awful lot of weariness in "Lullaby" and "Red Guitar" for a guy in his mid-thirties.

But persistence and professionalism pay off: LW3's pop-chart success may have been as random as any one-hit-wonder, but his skill as a performer was forged through hundreds of live performances, and it shows here at what might be considered a relatively "early" time in his career.

having recentley discovered this gem it has me pulling out the old LP's. Wainwright is at his best solo without the band. Songs come across much clearer and you get more of a feel for the man himself.Highly recomended

Some of these songs are hilarious, some are sad, some are both, but all are delivered with such warmth and feeling, you feel like you're right there in the room. There are several true classics here but I think his version of "Motel Blues" here is one of the finest live songs I've ever heard from a singer-songwriter. It's so honest and moving, it wipes me out every time. As a friend of mine said after I put that song on a mix tape for him, "He sure hit it out of the park on that one". Well said, Ken.

Right up there with More Love Songs as classic LWIII, at his best.

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