So Damn Happy (Loudon Wainwright III album)

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So Damn Happy
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 19, 2003
Genre Folk rock
Label Sanctuary
Producer Stewart Lerman,
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III chronology
Last Man on Earth
(2001)
So Damn Happy
(2003)
Here Come the Choppers
(2005)
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So Damn Happy is the third live album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on August 19, 2003 on Sanctuary Records. The album was recorded at Largo in West Hollywood, California, and features, amongst others, Van Dyke Parks, Richard Thompson and Martha Wainwright.

Contents

So Damn Happy compiles mostly nineties-era Wainwright songs, particularly from Grown Man , and new songs.

Regarding So Damn Happy's lighter tone, in comparison to previous release, Last Man on Earth , Loudon states that: [4]

[One of the reasons I made this record is because] Last Man on Earth had a kind of serious tone to it, let's say. But this record, one of the reasons that we wanted to call it So Damn Happy - aside from the fact that there's a tune on the album with that title - was that we wanted to herald that it's lighter in tone. And there are some serious songs in it [but] there's some completely silly stuff, too, which I certainly hopefully never will forgo entirely. [...] It's a good time, and a lighter time, and I'm doing fine.

Track listing

  1. "Much Better Bets" – 3:05
  2. "So Damn Happy" – 2:54
  3. "Between" – 1:23
  4. "The Picture" – 2:48
  5. "Cobwebs" – 3:09
  6. "Heaven" – 2:52
  7. "Something for Nothing" – 4:10
  8. "Dreaming" – 4:05
  9. "Westchester County" – 4:20
  10. "Tonya's Twirls" – 4:47
  11. "A Year" – 3:37
  12. "You Never Phone" (with Martha Wainwright) – 3:06
  13. "4 X 10" – 2:26
  14. "The Sh*t Song" – 4:18
  15. "Primrose Hill" – 4:17
  16. "The Home Stretch" – 5:09
  17. "Men" – 3:36

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Robert Christgau review
  3. Rolling Stone review
  4. "Loudon Wainwright III (p.2)". Puremusic.com. Retrieved 2012-01-12.

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