Years in the Making (album)

Years in the Making is a two-CD compilation album by Loudon Wainwright III released on September 14, 2018, by StorySound Records.[2][3] The album brings together 42 songs spanning Wainwright's career, including home and live recordings, demos, studio outtakes, and interview pieces. The set, released in a hardbound book, features 60 pages of liner notes, art, photos, and documents.[4][5]

Years in the Making
Compilation album by Loudon Wainwright III
Released	September 14, 2018 (2018-09-14)
Genre	Folk
Label	StorySound Records
Producer	Loudon Wainwright III & Dick Connette

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rolling Stone	[1]

The album is arranged roughly by topic and chronology.[2] Its tracks, most of which were previously unreleased, are divided into seven "chapters": Folk, Rocking Out and Kids on disc one and Love Hurts, Miscellany, Hollywood and The Big Picture on disc two.[4][5] Years in the Making was co-produced by Wainwright and Dick Connette, who produced High Wide & Handsome, Wainwright's 2009 tribute to legendary banjo player Charlie Poole.[5]

Track Listing

Disc One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Rosin the Bow"	Traditional	0:38
2.	"You Ain't Going Nowhere"	Bob Dylan	2:26
3.	"East St. Louis Tweedle-Dee"	Steve Goodman	1:41
4.	"Everybody I Know"	Loudon Wainwright III	1:09
5.	"Philadelphia Lawyer"	Woody Guthrie	4:12
6.	"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"	Traditional	4:15
7.	"Love Gifts"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:40
8.	"Stewball"	Traditional	3:43
9.	"Flood of Tears"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:25
10.	"Station Break"	Loudon Wainwright III	0:27
11.	"Have You Ever Been to Pittsburgh?"	Loudon Wainwright III	1:10
12.	"2 Song Set"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:54
13.	"Cardboard Boxes"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:13
14.	"Smokey Joe's Cafe"	Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller	3:25
15.	"You Hurt Me Mantra"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:28
16.	"Rambunctious"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:34
17.	"Wanna Be on MTV"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:19
18.	"Birthday Poem/Happy Birthday/Animal Song"	Suzzy Roche/Public Domain/Loudon Wainwright III	1:33
19.	"Your Mother & I"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:33
20.	"Button Nose"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:41
21.	"The Ballad of Famous & Harper"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:39
22.	"Teenager's Lament"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:03
23.	"Things"	Loudon Wainwright III	4:21

Disc Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Unrequited to the Nth Degree"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:15
2.	"Ulcer"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:31
3.	"You Can't Fail Me Now"	Joe Henry/Loudon Wainwright III	2:57
4.	"No"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:30
5.	"Rowena"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:53
6.	"Cheatin'"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:13
7.	"IDTTYWLM"	Loudon Wainwright III	5:23
8.	"Down Where the Drunkards Roll"	Richard Thompson	4:31
9.	"POW"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:03
10.	"Meet the Wainwrights"	Loudon Wainwright III	4:19
11.	"Liza Minnelli Interview"		0:45
12.	"Hollywood Hopeful"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:43
13.	"Valley Morning"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:23
14.	"Trailer"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:30
15.	"God's Got a Sh*t List"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:30
16.	"Thank You, Mr. Hubble"	Loudon Wainwright III	2:15
17.	"It Ain't Gaza"	Loudon Wainwright III	3:06
18.	"Out of This World"	Loudon Wainwright III	6:05
19.	"Birthday Boy"	Loudon Wainwright III	1:32

Notes

1. Browne, David; Browne, David (September 17, 2018). "Review: Loudon Wainwright III Delivers a Warts and All Autobiography on 'Years in the Making'".
2. Browne, David (September 17, 2018). "Wainwright III Delivers a Warts and All Autobiography on 'Years in the Making'". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
3. "Loudon Wainwright III: Years in the Making". amazon.com. Amazon. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
4. Amen, John (September 11, 2018). "Loudon Wainwright III Offers a Compelling Retrospective". nodepression.com. No Depression. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
5. Whitmore, Laura B. (June 21, 2018). "Loudon Wainwright III Announces New Two-Disc Collection, 'Years In The Making'". parade.com. Parade. Retrieved September 30, 2018.