1. My Biggest Fan
2. No Sure Way
3. Had To Be Her
4. Hank And Fred
5. Half Fist
6. To Be On TV
7. God’s Country
8. Make Your Mother Mad
9. When You Leave
10. Nanny
11. Choppers
12. Things
Total time: 56.5 minutes
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Here Come The Choppers!
Loudon Wainwright III
Sovereign Artists
He doesn’t reinvent himself. It’s not a live record. Nor is it a collection of BBC sessions or NPR-commissioned ditties. It’s just a collection of fine songs played by equally fine musicians gathered on the occasion of the folk singer/songwriter’s 17th-and-a-half studio album.
He really couldn’t have asked for a better backup band: Bill Frisell (electric guitar); Greg Leisz (lap steel, pedal steel, mandolin and electric guitar); David Piltch (acoustic and electric bass); and Jim Keltner (drums).
The cream of this crop of songs would be: “My Biggest Fan,” inspired by a 400-pound man who comes to the dressing room after a show and says, “I’m Your Biggest Fan”; “Hank and Fred,” which juxtaposes reaction to the death of PBS kids-show host Fred Rogers with a visit to Hank Williams’ grave; “To Be on TV,” a philosophical rumination on who one sees reflected in the television set once it’s turned off; “God’s Country,” about the never-ending job of avoiding evil; “Make Your Mother Mad,” the story of a guy who enjoys doing things to upset his future mother-in-law, including getting married; a feisty, cantankerous song about a feisty, cantankerous grandmother; and the title track, dealing with L.A.’s seemingly constant barrage of overhead police surveillance.
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