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December 1, 2018

Suzzy Roche Interview on Wisconsin Public Radio

Suzzy Roche shares loving memories of sister Maggie Roche and talks about the album 'Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs' of Maggie Roche on the program 'Beta' from Wisconsin Public Radio.

Suzzy Roche Remembers Her Sister As Big-Hearted, Powerful Musician
By Doug Gordon
 

Maggie Roche was a member of the trio, The Roches, along with her sisters Terre and Suzzy.

The Roches created distinctive harmonies together for almost 40 years until Maggie died in January 2017 at age 65 after a long battle with breast cancer.

Suzzy recently put together a collection of songs by Maggie to honor her memory and music. It's called "Where Do I Come From."

As Suzzy told WPR's "BETA," her about a year before she could start the project.

"When Maggie died, in the last couple of weeks, she asked me to do something with her music. And, you know, then she died and then four months later, my mother died," Suzzy said. "So the whole year was just a complete black time for me. And it wasn’t until the next year that I actually started to think what am I going to do? And so Dick Connette from StorySound Records told me that he would help me. And so then I began the process of going through all the material and all the music that she had left and trying to put together something that I felt would represent her life’s work."

The two-CD set features four previously unreleased recordings, including the title track. Suzzy had to sift through many boxes of tapes and cassettes before she discovered "Where Do I Come From."

"I went through everything and I found that little song. I think it was probably the last song she wrote. It was very recent and I just was so struck by it."

"I do think that Maggie was having a very hard time in the last few years of her life," Suzzy continued. "She was ill and she didn’t tell anyone. And I think she felt very alone. But I also know that she was very interested in the refugee crisis around the world and the migrants. And I know that because I found also among her things all these places where she was donating. So I think part of her really identified with the feeling of being misplaced or displaced from her own life."

Listen to the full interview HERE

November 13, 2018

LA Times Review Loudon Wainwright III Surviving Twin

Review: 'Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin' blurs the lines between father and son

By Robert Lloyd
| Television Critic |
 
Singer Loudon Wainwright III stars in his one-man show, "Surviving Twin," which premiered on Netflix on November 13.

In his one-man show "Surviving Twin," first performed in 2013, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III created a "a posthumous collaboration" with his father, Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright Jr., alternating his songs with his old man's essays.

A story of love and competition, the show has been recorded for posterity as a Netflix special, directed by Christopher Guest and executive produced by Judd Apatow, the latter of whom has used the singer as an actor in his TV series "Undeclared" and the movie "Knocked Up," which also included his songs on the soundtrack. (The actor Daniel Stern directed “Twin” for the stage.)

In his one-man show "Surviving Twin," first performed in 2013, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III created a "a posthumous collaboration" with his father, Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright Jr., alternating his songs with his old man's essays.

A story of love and competition, the show has been recorded for posterity as a Netflix special, directed by Christopher Guest and executive produced by Judd Apatow, the latter of whom has used the singer as an actor in his TV series "Undeclared" and the movie "Knocked Up," which also included his songs on the soundtrack. (The actor Daniel Stern directed “Twin” for the stage.)

Wainwright, who studied acting and directing at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech (before it was Carnegie Mellon), has a decent string of screen credits, including "Big Fish," "Parks and Recreation," "The 40-Year Old Virgin," Guest's "For Your Consideration" and the TV series "M.A.S.H.," on which he briefly had a recurring role. That is to say, he can remember lines and deliver them with intention.

Filmed at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre before an audience not entirely of Wainwright's generation — he turned 72 in September and is fit and in fine voice — the show premiered on Netflix on Tuesday.

At stage right, there's a piano, with a ukulele case atop it. At center, upon a patterned carpet, a table (holding a water glass and carafe), a chair flanked by stands for guitar and banjo, and a rack for a suit, which will eventually make its way onto the singer's body. Stage left, there’s a video screen.

Read the full article HERE

The studio recording of Surviving Twin will be released on StorySound Records on November 16.

November 2, 2018

Maggie Roche Song "Stayin' Home" Included in New York Times Playlist

The New York Times

The Playlist: A ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ Surprise, and 12 More New Songs Hear tracks by Carly Rae Jepsen, LCD Soundsystem, Maggie Roche and others.

By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello

The songs Maggie Roche (1951-2017) wrote to sing with her sisters, Suzzy and Terre, as the Roches and on her own sidestepped categories the way they evaded pop symmetries. “Lose it or abuse it/the public will refuse it,” she decided in this unreleased demo from a profound posthumous collection, “Where Do I Come From.” Her songs were acoustic but not folk music, deeply personal but not introverted, amusing but deeply barbed and too subtle for mass popularity, even as they deeply reached many listeners. “Stayin’ Home” juggles pop ambition against its obstacles — and, in one verse, some sexual harassment — and concludes with a couplet only she could conceive: “You’ve got a lot of talent but you don’t know how to use it/You ought to go into country music.” JON PARELES

Listen to the song HERE.

Read the full article HERE.

October 26, 2018

Maggie Roche 'Where Do I Come From' Featured on NPR "New Music Friday"

New Music Friday For Oct. 26: The 8 Albums You Should Hear Now

NPR ‘New Music Friday’ featuring “Stayin' Home" a previously unreleased demo recording from the collection 'Where Do I Come From' Selected Songs by Maggie Roche.  Robin Hilton and Ann Powers discuss the release and talk about the power of Maggie’s songwriting. 

For those who don’t, know Maggie Roche was in a group called the Roches with her two sisters, Suzzy and Terre, and I honestly can’t think of a more important songwriter and more important group, and Maggie is the songwriter’s songwriter in that trio. I think of the Roches as the great forgotten singer/songwriter group, cult favorites of aficianados of the form. How to explain what Maggie Roche does as a songwriter - she was the most wry, the most deeply observational, the most, at once, sort of down home and philisophical songwriter that I know of. I just long for people to hear her music so much, so I’m so excited that this collection exists for the world to discover. - Ann Powers NPR All Song Considered

Listen to the full podcast HERE

October 22, 2018

Loudon Wainright III "Surviving Twin" Netflix Original Special Launches November 13

Loudon Wainright III "Surviving Twin" Netflix Original Special from Executive Producer Judd Apatow and Director Christopher Guest and Produced by Funny Or Die Launches November 13

Grammy-winning singer Loudon Wainwright III reflects on the close but complicated relationships between fathers and sons in this intimate evening of music and storytelling, from executive producer Judd Apatow and director Christopher Guest.

"I am so thrilled that Netflix has given Loudon Wainwright the opportunity to share this wonderful show with their audience.  I think Loudon Wainwright is a national treasure." Said Executive Producer and Founder of Apatow Productions, Judd Apatow.

"Loudon Wainwright has written a brilliant show. It is funny, emotional, and filled with his incredible songs.” Said Executive Producer and Director, Christopher Guest.

Loudon Wainright III Surviving Twin is produced for Netflix by Funny Or Die and Apatow Productions. Written and performed by Loudon Wainright III and directed by Christopher Guest. Executive producers are Loudon Wainright III, Judd Apatow, Christopher Guest, Funny Or Die’s Caitlin Daley and Mike Farah and Apatow Productions’ Josh Church.

October 12, 2018

Loudon Wainwright III Lists Top 10 Protest Songs in New York Times Opinon Page

Them’s Fightin’ Words: 10 Great Protest Songs

To the barricades! And don’t forget the lyric sheet! With midterm elections approaching, a look back at some anthems and ditties that have challenged the status quo.

By Loudon Wainwright III

Mr. Wainwright is a singer-songwriter whose latest album is “Years in the Making.”

Oct. 12, 2018

Political persuasion is rarely friendly, and there will be lots more yelling, blaming, placard-waving and marching before we get to the November midterm elections. But I hope there will be some fervent singing as well — maybe even some of what used to be called protest songs.

I think of 16-year-old me in 1963, hitchhiking to the Newport Folk Festival with my Martin D-28 guitar to witness Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the Freedom Singers, all swaying with locked hands and singing “We Shall Overcome.” Then there’s the memory of Toby Keith on TV four decades later, whipping a huge, scary outdoor audience into a frenzy with “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”

Throughout my career, I have come up with musical harangues, broadsides, laments, parodies and political potshots, and my forays into folk agitprop tend to be laced with humor, in hopes of encouraging members of the audience to laugh at those they might fear and oppose.

In the spring of 2016, I wrote a song about the candidacy of Donald Trump called “I Had a Dream.” (“His little finger on the button, he was doin’ his thing/Our new national anthem was ‘My Ding-a-ling.’”) The whole thing seemed like a joke back then — the song, him, the idea that the guy could be elected president. When I performed the number during that summer and early fall, most people loved it, and why wouldn’t they? I was preaching to a choir. There were a few unhappy campers, people who walked out in a huff, but part of my job description is ruffling feathers, so I took their displeasure in stride.

I haven’t been singing “I Had a Dream” much these last two years, although not long ago I came up with a little thing called “Presidents Day.” (“There’s a reckoning coming in November they say/In the meanwhile it’s unto Robert Mueller we pray.”)

Read the full article HERE

October 12, 2018

Billboard Magazine Debuts Video for Maggie Roche Song "Stayin' Home"

Suzzy Roche Shares 'Stayin' Home' From Sister Maggie's Posthumous Solo Release

by Gary Graff
photo by Irene Young

Suzzy Roche's goal for the posthumous Maggie Roche compilation Where Do I Come From was "for her voice to be heard as much as possible." But the video for the unreleased 1972 demo "Stayin' Home," premiering exclusively below, provides a visual souvenir of the late singer-songwriter, too.

The clip, which features Roche dancing along to the song, was the idea of StorySound Records chief Dick Connette, who's releasing the compilation. "Right after she died I discovered a video of her dancing," Suzzy tells Billboard. "Maggie was very quiet and shy on stage, but then all of a sudden she would go and do this dance during the middle of one of the songs, which was so great. Dick took this dance and reconfigured it a bit and said, 'Why not let it be raw Maggie?'

"It really is her, and a different side of her. That's the thing I wanted, to put out the most possible information about her."

Suzzy acknowledges that the Where Do I Come From project has been "quite an emotional roller coaster" for her. It came from a direct charge from Maggie, who passed away during January 2017 from cancer at the age of 65. "In the last week of her life she asked me to please do something with her music," Suzzy recalls. "I was completely devastated by her death, and it really took me a year to even lift my head because my mother died four months later. It was a terrible year."

Read the full article and watch the video HERE

September 17, 2018

Loudon Wainwright III - Years in the Making Reviewed in Rolling Stone

Review: Loudon Wainwright III Delivers a Warts and All Autobiography on ‘Years in the Making’

The singer-songwriter’s career-spanning new set shows why there’s never been a confessional sage quite like him.

3.5 Stars

As he reminds us album after album, decade after decade, few songwriters have laid out their lives in song as graphically as Loudon Wainwright III. By chronicling his years from post-adolescence to senior citizenry in real time, he’s not only pushed the boundaries of confessional songwriting but allowed those with somewhat more stable lives to live vicariously through his trysts, marriages, divorces, inebriated episodes, quest for success, and bad-dad issues. Pick any point in your life—the arrival of a child, the loss of a parent or two, the amassing of new meds in the bathroom cabinet–and Wainwright will have a song about it. It’s hard to imagine an even deeper dive into his world, but he does that just with this “audiobiography”–two discs of home recordings, low-fi live tapes, album rejects, and other ephemera from an unapologetic narcissist and screwup who still manages to speak direct, universal truths like no one else in his business.

Arranged by topic and rough chronology, Years in the Making starts with “Folk,” where at various points in his life we hear Wainwright singing Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Just as revealingly, he mangles the cringe-worthy folk ballad “I Gave My Love a Cherry,” which devolves into faxed death threats. (It’s the lyrical equivalent of John Belushi smashing Stephen Bishop’s guitar in Animal House.) The grouping of tracks into the section “Rocking Out” almost comically documents the period in the ’70s when the normally one-man-act Wainwright had backing bands and tried to make something akin to commercial pop. A live take of “2 Song Set” now sounds like a glorious-loser country song, and its drunk-at-the-bar “flash in the pan” narrator feels even more pointed in retrospect. (Wainwright’s only hit, “Dead Skunk,” came a few years earlier.) But when he starts a live version of “You Hurt Me Mantra” with an almost uncomfortable parody of a heckler, you can hear why he wasn’t destined for AM radio that often.

Read the full review HERE.

 

September 14, 2018

Vogue Magazine Reviews Forthcoming Collection of Maggie Roche Songs and Premiere Video for "Where Do I Come From"

The Roches Are Back (Kind of) With a New, Posthumous Solo Album From a Dearly Departed Sister

If you don’t know The Roches, you really need to stop what you’re doing and listen to, say, “Hammond Song" The Roches were three sisters from what they described as “deepest New Jersey” who learned to sing harmony in the back of their parents’ car on the New Jersey Turnpike and then grew up to sing songs that were so clear and sure and so not like other songs in the early ’80s in New York City. The first Roches album was born of failure: Maggie and Terre Roche had gone to England to record as a duo. They’d gotten a record deal thanks to one of their mentors, Paul Simon, who they sang backup for on There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. Record companies wanted a certain kind of album from two women in the early ’80s—i.e., something with an equal amount of power chords and frizzed-out hair—and when the Roches did not appear to be delivering, they were called back from England. “I think the record company was trying to get them to wear certain clothes,” Suzzy Roche, the youngest of the Roches, recalled when I spoke to her the other day. “And at one point the company had one quote unquote coach come in and try to get one of them to get down on her knees during a song. You know, it was weird.”

Thus, the two sisters returned to New York, and their little sister joined up with them. “They said, ‘Screw the music business—we’re going to sing in the streets!’ ” The Roches were born. They started to busk. It was near Christmas. They busked singing holiday songs. Crowds gathered, big crowds. The holidays passed and they added to their repertoire, and, in 1979, the three of them made an album, a crazy beautiful album that was produced by Robert Fripp, who would work with Blondie and Bowie and would say of the Roches (in Suzzy’s recollection): “You will never be hugely successful, but you will influence many people coming after you.”

Maggie Roche 'Where Do I Come From' will be released October 26. 

Read the full article and watch the video HERE

September 13, 2018

LA Times Premiere Loudon Wainwright III "Hollywood Hopeful" Video

Video premiere: Watch an animated Loudon Wainwright III wrestle with demons while holed up at the Chateau Marmont in "Hollywood Hopeful"

Thousands of songs have been set in Los Angeles over the decades, and the most famous among them have become anthems: Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ But a G Thang,” the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” and Thee Midniters’ “Whittier Blvd.” among them.

Lesser known is the gem “Hollywood Hopeful” by the singer-songwriter-actor Loudon Wainwright III, which has just been given a new animated video that the Times is premiering here. Originally released in 1975, the song is part of Wainwright’s new oddballs-and-outtakes collection “Years in the Making.” The set gathers work from across Wainwright’s four-plus decades as a professional entertainer. “I am a full fledged, grown-up adult/I'm trying make a dent, trying to get a result,” Wainwright sings to open the autobiographical song. “I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite/Tequila to drink and avocado to eat.” 

Read the full article and watch the video HERE

September 7, 2018

Where Do I Come From: A Moving Collection Of Songs By Maggie Roche To Be Released October 26

Where Do I Come From, a 32-track, 2CD collection of songs by Maggie Roche (1951-2017), will be released by StorySound Records on what would have been the beloved singer's 67th birthday, October 26th, providing a immersive and poignant look at one of our most original American songwriters.

Maggie, who passed away in 2017 after a long struggle with cancer, was at the center of the long-running and much-admired music group The Roches, created with her sisters Terre and Suzzy. Maggie composed her songs for three voices, fashioning the signature sound of The Roches. Where Do I Come From spans her entire music career, from her 1975 duo album with Terre, through The Roches 2007 reunion record. The collection, which has been compiled in close collaboration with Suzzy, also features four previously unreleased recordings: "Stayin’ Home," an early song that provides a snapshot of a young feisty Maggie as she ventures out into the world. "Down The Dream," a live studio track recorded after word that Columbia Records had doubts about the progress Maggie and Terre were making in their recording sessions. (Another version of the song wound up on the 1975 duo album Seductive Reasoning, but this demo is classic, unedited Maggie.) "Where Do I Come From," the title track, was found among Maggie’s things after her death and is most likely the last song she wrote. The newly recorded Christmas song, "Christmas Love," was not written in time to make it onto We Three Kings, the Roches cherished 1990 Christmas album. Her family, in loving memory, sings "Christmas Love" for this collection.

"In the last weeks of Maggie’s life, we spent countless hours talking, laughing, crying, and reminiscing about our amazing journey together," says Suzzy. "She asked me to take care of her music. One thing she told me several times is that she regretted not making a solo recording. In her absence, this is the closest I could come to fulfilling her wish."

Maggie was a soft-spoken, radical soul who sought, above all, authenticity and freedom of expression. She’d have to be considered a feminist voice, well ahead of her time. Isolating her songs from the rest of The Roches catalogue further highlights her unique point of view. This release goes out into the world as a celebration of the life and music of a deep and bold, yet shy artist, whose sensitivity was so keen that the rigors of the music business and public exposure at times seemed to work against her devotion to her own art, which took a front seat to everything else.

Upon her death, Maggie's listeners stepped forward to exclaim their deep connection to her through her music. Where Do I Come From is for those listeners as well as the many who have yet to discover her music.

Track listing for Where Do I Come From

Disc One

1. Malachy’s (from Seductive Reasoning, 1975)
2. Burden of Proof  (from Seductive Reasoning)
3. Jill of All Trades (from Seductive Reasoning)
4. Underneath the Moon (from Seductive Reasoning)
5. West Virginia (from Seductive Reasoning)
6. Stayin’ Home (previously Unreleased demo)
7. Down the Dream (previously Unreleased demo)
8. Hammond Song (from The Roches, 1979)
9. The Married Men (from The Roches)
10. Quitting Time (from The Roches)
11. Pretty and High (from The Roches)
12. This Feminine Position (from Nurds, 1980)
13. Losing True (from Keep On Doing, 1982)
14. The Scorpion Lament (from Keep On Doing, 1982)
15. No Trespassing (from No Trespassing, 1986)
16. Christmas Love (Unreleased studio recording)

Disc Two

1. Speak (from Speak, 1989)
2. Big Nuthin’ (from Speak)
3. Cloud Dancing (from Speak)
4. In the World (from Speak)
5. Nocturne (from Speak)
6. Feeling Is Mutual (from Speak)
7. A Dove (from A Dove, 1992)
8. You’re the One (from A Dove)
9. Can We Go Home Now (from Can We Go Home Now, 1995)
10. You (Make My Life Come True) (from Can We Go Home Now)
11. My Winter Coat (from Can We Go Home Now)
12. A Prayer (from Zero Church, 2002)
13. One Season (from Why the Long Face, 2004)
14. Broken Places (from Why the Long Face)
15. Family of Bones (from Moonswept, 2007)
16. Where Do I Come From (Unreleased home recording)

September 6, 2018

Loudon Wainwright III's "Surviving Twin" at The New Yorker Festival with Judd Apatow and Christopher Guest

On Saturday October 6 The New Yorker Festival present “Surviving Twin”

With Judd Apatow, Christopher Guest, and Loudon Wainwright III. Moderated by John Seabrook. Featuring a sneak peek from the upcoming Netflix special “Surviving Twin” and a live performance by Wainwright and Guest.

Sat, Oct. 6  |  7:00 pm  |  90 minutes  |  Directors Guild Theater 110 West 57th Street, NYC.  Purchase tickets HERE

The audio version of "Surviving Twin" will be released November 16 on StorySound Records. 

July 18, 2018

Billboard Reviews Loudon Wainwright III NYC Show

5 Things We Learned From Loudon Wainwright III's Intimate NYC Show

by Joe Lynch

While many practitioners of the singer-songwriter genre in the '70s approached politics, love, and self-examination with the deadly seriousness of the singer as The Artist, showing the full range of human emotion was never a problem for Loudon Wainwright III.

Although hailed as a 'new Dylan' when he debuted, Wainwright was far more comfortable indulging in self-effacement and even a goofy side, unabashedly going for laughs with his wry lyrics and winking delivery. Of course there were serious autobiographical songs about sadness and failures, but he never bothered fostering that marmoreal cool so many did in the post Dylan scene, skewing closer to musical humorists like Tom Lehrer. That helped endear him to a cultish following as well as famous fans such as Johnny Cash (who covered "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" on American Recordings) and Judd Apatow (who is producing his upcoming Christopher Guest-directed Netflix special Surviving Twin based on his one-man show about his late father, a Life magazine columnist).

Wainwright's penchant for performance was on full display Monday (July 16) night at the intimate Caveat (a self-proclaimed "bar for intelligent nightlife") in Manhattan. In conversation with fellow artist Chuck Prophet, Wainwright spoke on his upcoming two-disc release Years In the Making, a collection of 42 unreleased and rare tracks spanning 45 years. His eclecticism is nodded to in the packaging of the set, which segments his songs into seven "chapters" such as folk, rock, kids, "love hurts" and more.

Read the entire article HERE

June 26, 2018

Announcing New Loudon Wainwright III Collection 'Years in the Making'

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III ANNOUNCES NEW TREASURY OF RARE AND UNISSUED LOUDONIANA ‘YEARS IN THE MAKING’ (SEPTEMBER 14 on STORYSOUND RECORDS)

2-DISC “AUDIO-BIOGRAPHY” FEATURES 42 SONGS: LIVE RECORDINGS, RADIO APPEARANCES, HOME DEMOS AND MORE FROM PAST 45 YEARS, PLUS HAND-DRAWN ARTWORK BY ED STEED

INCLUDES APPEARANCES FROM KATE MCGARRIGLE, SUZZY ROCHE, BILL FRISELL, VAN DYKE PARKS, LOUDON’S CHILDREN, AND MORE.

Today, Loudon Wainwright III announces ‘Years in the Making,’ a two-disc compendium of 45 years of Loudon’s offbeaten, rare and unissued tracks. Out September 14 on StorySound Records, ‘Years in the Making’ is a true “audio-biography” that boasts orphaned album cuts, live recordings, radio appearances, home demos, and more, that come together to offer a never-before-seen perspective on Loudon’s public and private selves. Notable figures from Loudon’s life pop up throughout as well: Kate McGarrigle, Suzzy Roche, Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks, Chaim Tannenbaum, David Mansfield, Steve Goodman, George Gerdes, and the Wainwright children Rufus, Martha, Lucy and Lexie.

From Loudon’s early folk efforts covering Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to his more recent years (including an a cappella rendition of 2017’s “Birthday Boy,” written on the occasion of Loudon’s 71st), “Years in the Making” is a treasury of the finest Loudoniana. 

The two-disc, 42-track set is divided into seven chapters and will be released in a 60-page hardbound book. The artwork was done by New Yorker cartoonist Ed Steed (who won a Grammy last year for creating the packaging for Father John Misty’s ‘Pure Comedy’). The package includes dozens of scans of documents, introspective musings and other artifacts from what Loudon calls his “swinging life,” in addition to paintings and drawings done by friends and fans.

Says Loudon, “'Years in the Making' covers a lot of ground, about half a century’s worth. Sonically it’s all over the place and, at times, noticeably low-fi, but my co-producer Dick Connette and I decided that didn’t matter as much as offering up something that was spirited and representational…The sources at our disposal came in various formats – hard drives, cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, B-sides, bootlegs, and reference CDs. There was too much to choose from, and plenty wasn’t even listened to but we did our level best to pick and assemble what we think amounts to a diverting 2 hours of listening.”

“Years in the Making” is co-produced by Loudon and Dick Connette.

DISC ONE

  1. Rosin the Bow
  2. You Ain’t Going Nowhere
  3. Easy St. Louis Tweedle-Dee
  4. Everybody I know
  5. Philadelphia Lawyer
  6. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
  7. Love Gifts
  8. Stewball
  9. Floods of Tears
  10. Station Break
  11. Have You Ever Been To Pittsburgh
  12. 2 Song Set
  13. Cardboard Boxes
  14. Smokey Joe’s Café
  15. You Hurt Me Mantra
  16. Rambunctious
  17. I Wanna Be On MTV
  18. Birthday Poem / Happy Birthday / Animal Song
  19. Your Mother & I
  20. Button Nose
  21. The Ballad of Famous & Harper
  22. Teenager’s Lament
  23. Things

DISC TWO

  1. Unrequited to the Nth Degree
  2. Ulcer
  3. You Can’t Fail Me Now
  4. No
  5. Rowena
  6. Cheatin’
  7. IDTTYWLM
  8. Down Where the Drunkards Roll
  9. POW
  10. Meet the Wainwrights
  11. Liza Minnelli Interview
  12. Hollywood Hopeful
  13. Valley Morning
  14. Trailer
  15. God’s Got a Shit List
  16. Thank You, Mr. Hubble
  17. It Ain’t Gaza
  18. Out of This World
  19. Birthday Boy
June 21, 2018

Billboard Premieres New Video for Loudon Wainwright's "Floods of Tears"


Loudon Wainwright III Shares Video for Unreleased 1985 Song 'Floods of Tears': Premiere

by Gary Graff

Loudon Wainwright III considers his upcoming compilation Years in the Making an "audiobiography." And rest assured the two-disc, 42-track set, coming out Sept. 14, features plenty of his story that you've never heard before -- including the previously unreleased "Floods of Tears," whose video is premiering exclusively below.

Put together by Wainwright and regular collaborator Dick Connette, Years in the Making pulls together all sorts of Wainwright recorded ephemera from his vaults, including deep album tracks, outtakes, home demos, live recordings, radio appearances and more. There are recordings of his children singing "Happy Birthday" to him, along with his "The Animal Song," alongside collaborations with Suzzy Roche, Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks and Wainwright's first wife, the late Kate McGarrigle, dueting on a 1974 home recording of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Going Nowhere."

Read the full article and watch the video HERE

June 9, 2018

Rolling Stone 10 Best Americana Songs of the Week

Ana Egge, "Girls, Girls, Girls" included in Rolling Stone's 10 Best Country and Americana Songs of the Week

Whistles, horns and a slew of New York City allusions highlight Ana Egge's "Girls, Girls, Girls," the breezy opener of the Brooklyn folksinger's new album White Tiger. Egge celebrates a New York that felt welcoming to all: singing with a Joni Mitchell croon and the wide-eyed optimism of an artist new to her city. But that was then. Now Egge has been around the block – and become a favorite of fellow songwriters Lucinda Williams and Shawn Colvin in the process – and she's reflecting with some world-weariness on those heady early days, when her city was "the place to be." J.H.

June 8, 2018

UPROXX Best New Albums This Week

White Tiger included in the Uproxx Music Guide to the best  new albums, mixtapes, and other music releases that matter this week. Stream the BEST new albums this week. 

Ana Egge is clearly proficient at purveying pillow-soft indie folk, such as with the Belle And Sebastian-like whimsy of album opener “Girls, Girls, Girls.” It’s low-tempo, but not low-energy, as there’s a ton of vivacity behind the rest of the serene tunes on this record.

June 8, 2018

NPR New Music Friday Includes Ana Egge's White Tiger

NPR All Songs Considered
New Music Friday For June 8: Six Albums You Should Hear Now

All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton is joined by NPR Music's Ann Powers, Lyndsey McKenna, and Sidney Madden to talk about June 8's standout albums.

Listen to the Full Playlist HERE

June 4, 2018

White Tiger Review in Elmore Magazine

Ana Egge White Tiger

Ana Egge’s tenth release again features her sweet vocal delivery and an assured grasp of acoustic guitar picking, at times in the style of Mississippi John Hurt, though, in reality, the album could never be called a blues release. Following the deserved success of her previous offering Say That Now, in 2016, when she was backed by a Danish band, the Sentimentals, Egge has again crafted a batch of songs that speak of love, of small-town tristesse and homely comforts, songs that sparkle with honesty and emotion.

The lady herself may be a newcomer to many, but has been working steadily for many years, honing her skills as a singer/songwriter in the traditional US roots music world, touring from time to time and always holding on to her optimism and promise. In recent years she has worked alongside the likes of John Prine, Iris DeMent ( a clear influence), Steve James and Lucinda Williams. Steve Earle has helped out, producing an earlier release at Levon Helm’s old studio in Woodstock, so this is a young lady with a fair pedigree and bags of purpose and ambition.

If pushed to classify her music, it probably falls into the old, US folk-singer-cum-modern Americana, singer/songwriter end of things. But in truth it’s music that speaks to the heart and soul, without ever being too demanding or disturbing. Having previously picked up a number of awards for her writing and performing, Egge may well be looking ahead with hope as her new release features nine self-penned tracks and a John Hartford cover.

With White Tiger, Egge has assembled a fine band and written a bunch of songs that linger in the memory long after the end of the disc. A bit of an unsung delight, this is an album to savour.

—Iain Patience

Read the full reveiw HERE

June 4, 2018

Folk Alley "Hear It First"

Hear It First: Ana Egge, 'White Tiger'  by Kim Ruehl, Folk Alley

Ana Egge has one of those voices—full of breath and breeze one minute, grounded like a boot in a puddle the next—that just feels free. And as she wends into the title track of her new album White Tiger, Egge employs her voice and a wind-and-string ensemble to beckon someone through a dark time. Her lyrics liken life’s difficulties to a tiger prowling, but then she suggests of the tiger, “feed him, let him be your guide. Teach him freedom, that he might lead you through to the other side.” Suddenly, it all sounds so whimsical and easy, this living through darkness business. And why shouldn’t it be? The world has as much darkness as light, and it all flows in waves. It should be easy, right? It’s amazing what music can make you think.

Next, she’s following the syncopated groove of a bass guitar and electric power chords, lots of cymbals, lots of longing, on “Be With You.” “I’m Goin’ Bossa Nova” takes us to another place, with its canned drum beat leading into a flight-of-a-butterfly flute line and Egge’s airy vocals, which are closely followed by unison singing from her collaborator and co-producer Alec Spiegelman (Cuddle Magic).

“Dance Around the Room With Me” will make you want to do just that, with all its carefree love, an easy, carefree pop vibe reminiscent of The Bird and the Bee. “It’s okay to be angry, it’s okay to be mad. It’s okay to feel sorry, it’s okay to feel sad,” she sings. And then something flutters in the background while the synth plays and the drummer holds a steady 4/4 on the snare. It’s hard not to dance right into that whole idea.

Indeed, if you’re looking to get your heart opened, White Tiger is a good place to start. Egge’s voice has always felt like throwing the windows open, and this time out her songwriting—on every single track—rises to the same level. The arrangements behind her create the kinds of nuanced contours that support her simple, careful melodies and the artful way she sings, without overpowering or under-highlighting them.

Plus, she’s joined by some of her most exquisitely talented friends: Alex Hargreaves (best known for accompanying Sarah Jarosz, David Grisman, and others), Anais Mitchell, and Billy Strings among them. The result is a beautiful statement about how easy and beautiful life can be if you let it. Turn it on and open the windows, let the light in.

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