Album III

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Album III
AlbumIIIalbumcover.jpg
Studio album by
Loudon Wainwright III
ReleasedJune 15, 1972 (June 15, 1972)
StudioMarquee Studios, London
Genre Folk
Length32:19
Label Columbia
Producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye
Loudon Wainwright III chronology
Album II
(1971)		Album III
(1972)		 Attempted Mustache
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Record Guide A− [2]
Rolling Stone (favorable) [3]

Album III is the third full-length 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'"?

Contents

This is the first of his albums to feature a full backing band, on many tracks, which was named White Cloud. Wainwright mostly eschewed a rocking sound for a stripped down acoustic one from the early-1980s onwards.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Loudon Wainwright III except where noted.

  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" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 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

White Cloud consisted of Charles Brown III, Richard Crooks, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Kenneth Kosek, Don Payne and Teddy Wender

Technical

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [4] 62
US Billboard 200 [5] 102
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [6] 82
US Cash Box Top 100 Albums [7] 75

Release history

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References

  1. ↑ Album III at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 21, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone [ dead link ]
  4. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 331. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  5. ↑ "Loudon Wainwright-iii Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  6. ↑ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 4828". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box . April 21, 1973. p. 39. Retrieved 29 November 2024.


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