BBC Sessions [Live, Import]

Loudon Wainwright III | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live, Import
• Label: Strange Fruit UK
• ASIN: B00000G42P
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Be Careful There's A Baby In The House

2. East Indian Princess

3. I Know I'm Unhappy/Suicide Song/Glenville Reel

4. AM World

5. The Swimming Song

6. Prince Hal's Dirge

7. I Wish It Was Me

8. No

9. Hard Day On The Planet

10. You Don't Want To Know

11. Sunday Times

12. Nice Guys

13. Harry's Wall

14. Carmine Street

15. Number One

16. The Birthday Present

17. Men

18. A Father And A Son

19. School Days

20. It's Love And I Hate It

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So many fabulous songs..., November 14, 2000

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Blake Watson "===Blake===" (Winnetka, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BBC SESSIONS (Audio CD)

A good cross-section of raw Loudon. There are better albums for the uninitiated ("History" is probably his best studio album, "Career Moves" his best live-before-audience album) but this collection has a lot to recommend it, especially for the fan. (The only thing lacking, really, is that these are live performances without the feedback a large, liive audience would give, and Loudon's handling of audiences is definitely an important aspect of his talent.)

"Sunday Times", "I Wish It Were Me" and "It's Love And I Hate It" aren't available on his other albums and a lot of the songs which suffered from over-production on his albums (like "A.M. World", "East Indian Princess", and to a lesser extent "Prince Hal's Dirge") are given a cleaner treatment here.

The album is arranged in chronological order based on when the songs were performed, not when they were written. As the album progresses, Loudons voice gets less reedy and nasal and takes on a richer, more expressive tone. This renders particulrly poignant the late entry of "School Days", which was the first song on his first album, only now being sung some 25 years later, by a man old enough to be the song author's father.

Given the fact that LW3 has recorded enough songs live for BBC radio to fill many, many CDs, we can only hope this leads to further volumes.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Folk eminence, August 10, 2000

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Søren Helmer (Virum,Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BBC SESSIONS (Audio CD)

After a long life in and out of the music business, it is surely a rare thing to stumble over an artifact such as this. It is of course a compilation, but what a compilation. It will take you all the way around your emotional register, and somewhere along the way leave you bewildered and wondering, if this in fact was one album or several "best of's". the first couple of times I listened to the album, I felt like way back when I first heard Randy Newman, and he has been following me ever since. I am now the proud owner of many Loudon albums, and I will not stop untill I have them all. I am amazed that no has reviewed this album before, but go ahead...it is not hard to find all the positive adjectives in your vocabulary, and throw them in the air. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars can't get enough, April 23, 2000

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Penny L Guisinger (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BBC Sessions (Audio CD)

I just picked up the BBC Sessions (only my second LWIII album, and certainly not my last) the other day and I find that I can't play it enough! As soon as I get to the end of the last song, I find that I'm ready to hear the first one again. the guitar playing is amazing and the lyrics are witty and sincere. The recording is so intimate: it feels like the man is right here in my living room. Wow..... I love this record.