Album III

Album III
Studio album by Loudon Wainwright III
Released 1972
Genre Folk
Length 32:19
Label Columbia
Producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye
Loudon Wainwright III chronology

Album II
(1971)		 Album III
(1972)		 Attempted Mustache
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (A-)[2]
Rolling Stone (favorable)[3]

Album III, as its title indicates, is the third full album from Loudon Wainwright III. It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records. Album III would spawn Loudon Wainwright's most popular hit single, "Dead Skunk", one of the many 'novelty songs' sprinkled throughout Wainwright's career. Although Wainwright has maintained an ironic, sometimes sepulchral sense of humor, "Dead Skunk", despite its commercial success, has dogged him ever since, as he comments on 1985's album I'm Alright, "Were you embarrassed about 'Dead Skunk'"?

This is the first of his albums to feature a full backing band (on many tracks). Wainwright mostly eschewed a rocking sound for a stripped down acoustic one from the early 1980s onwards.

Track listing

  1. "Dead Skunk" – 3:05
  2. "Red Guitar" – 1:49
  3. "East Indian Princess" – 2:56
  4. "Muse Blues" – 2:53
  5. "Hometeam Crowd" – 1:49
  6. "B Side" – 2:26
  7. "Needless To Say" – 3:14
  8. "Smokey Joe's Cafe" – 2:31
  9. "New Paint" – 3:00
  10. "Trilogy (Circa 1967)" – 3:11
  11. "Drinking Song" – 2:55
  12. "Say That You Love Me" – 2:30

Personnel

Release history

References

  1. ↑ Album III at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Robert Christgau
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone