''Years in the Making'' is a two-CD compilation album by
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimmin ...
released on September 14, 2018, by StorySound Records.
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.
The album is arranged roughly by topic and chronology.
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.
''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
Charles Cleveland Poole (March 22, 1892 – May 21, 1931) was an American musician, singer and banjo player, as well as the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, which was a string band that recorded many popular songs between 1925 and 1930.
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Track listing
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2018 compilation albums
Loudon Wainwright III albums
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