He can remember specifically what made him want to be a performer. He jokes about fitting in an interview along with “maintenance visits” to doctors in a trip to the city. The singer grew up in the New York City suburbs of Westchester County and now lives on the eastern end of Long Island. Wainwright “was something like an old man even when he was young, so he takes to the subject of aging with grace and insight,” music critic Stephen Deusner wrote in a review of the album for Uncut. He usually performs alone, so starting alone is the approach that he feels fits best in the studio. “Lifetime Achievement” is essentially Wainwright and his guitar - or banjo on “How Old is 75?” - with adornments added later. That started at the very beginning I wrote my first song about going to boarding school in Delaware.”
I'm just writing about what happened to me. “What's a better topic than that? I could write about imagining what it's like to ride the rails or pick cotton. “How could I not write about that?” he said. Wainwright quips about “a couple of tense Thanksgiving dinners,” but is endlessly drawn to his own life for material, reasoning there will always be listeners who can relate. The title cut's narrator realizes that all of life's momentary achievements mean little next to love - either from a partner or audience, depending on your interpretation.Īnyone who's listened to the man that Rolling Stone called “the poet laureate of family dysfunction” knows about the competition with his father, his divorces from singers Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, the damage caused by the distant upbringings of son Rufus and daughter Lucy, both accomplished artists of their own. Over the course of 15 songs, Wainwright sings about pieces of his life scattered in various locales, walking through an old lover's town, imagining himself at the gates of hell and the perspective of a dog caught in the middle of a divorce. “But actually, it really applies to me now.” “The aging thing has always been on all of my records,” he said. Three-quarters of a century is a milestone, not just because it's a big number, but because he's now lived longer than his father and mother. I'll hear the fat lady,” is one of Wainwright's signature mixes of humor and poignant observation. The new song “How Old is 75?,” where he sings, “in five years I'll be 80. So it's no stretch that the folk singer's first album of new compositions in eight years, “Lifetime Achievement,” is loosely based on turning 75. The songs on this album can stand alone as individual stories, but taken together as a whole, they convey a much larger narrative with tales of wandering souls, the collisions of will, and the dark beauty of the American heart.NEW YORK (AP) - Loudon Wainwright III points out that the first line of the first song on his first album, released when he was 23, is about aging: “In Delaware when I was younger.” Walking Papers show that a great song can be conveyed with thundering drums, rumbling bass, and a howling guitar just as easily as it can with percolating marimbas and shimmering vibraphone. Album mastering was done by Chris Hanzsek at Hanzsek Audio.
The album was recorded by Catherine Ferrante at Avast Studios in Seattle, and mixed by Jack Endino at Soundhouse in Seattle. Walking Papers self-titled debut album features a stellar cast of musicians who have each added their own musical voices to the sound: Vocals and Guitar come from Jeff Drums, Vibraphone and Backing Vocals from Barrett Electric Bass from Duff McKagan two blistering guitar solos from Mike McCready elegant keyboards from Benjamin Anderson, and soulful horn arrangements from Dave Carter (Trumpet), Dan Spalding (Baritone Sax), and Ed Ulman (Trombone). Pearl Jam and Mad Season guitarist Mike McCready has been known to make guest appearances on stage as the lead guitar player. Benjamin Anderson brought his keyboard talents from the studio to the live stage, evolving the band into a quartet. The band played its first Seattle shows initially as a duo with Jeff on guitar and Barrett on drums, but soon added Duff McKagan on bass to make their official debut as a trio on July 22nd, 2012.
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Jeff previously sang and played guitar for the bands Post Stardom Depression and The Read more Missionary Position, and Barrett, a drummer and multi-instrumentalist, played for grunge pioneers Skin Yard and Screaming Trees, as well as the super groups Mad Season and Tuatara. Walking Papers is a blues-rock band formed by Jeff Angell and Barrett Martin, two long-serving veterans of the Seattle music scene. Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), Duff McKagan (Guns n´ Roses), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), and Ben Anderson (Rorschach Test) & Jeff Angell (Post Stardom Depression).