Years in the Making | |
Type: | Compilation album |
Artist: | Loudon Wainwright III |
Cover: | Years_in_the_Making_album_cover.jpg |
Genre: | Folk |
Label: | StorySound Records |
Producer: | Loudon Wainwright III & Dick Connette |
Years in the Making is a two-CD compilation album by Loudon Wainwright III released on September 14, 2018, by StorySound Records.[1] [2] 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.[3] [4]
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.