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- Record Label: Storysound Records
- Release Date: Aug 19, 2022
- Summary: The first full-length release of new songs in eight years for singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III was co-produced with Stewart Lerman and Dick Connette.
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- Record Label: Storysound Records
- Genre(s): Folk
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Aug 19, 2022The great joy of this late period album is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Lifetime Achievement is not so much a last will and testament as a bravura insistence on Wainwright’s intention to carry on living and loving for as long as he can.
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Aug 17, 2022Lifetime Achievement embraces the folksier elements of his sound, paring the music down to guitar, banjo, occasionally a harmonica and even more occasionally a full band. [Sep 2022, p.22[
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Aug 17, 2022First single Town And Country is a band-backed hymn to city-loving Wainwright’s current lifestyle that adds a touch of rock’n’roll pizzazz to proceedings.
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Aug 17, 2022Surprisingly, for an album that spends most of the span of its 15 tracks considering mortality, it’s never maudlin and rarely as cynical as his earlier work. More often it’s self-effacing, celebratory and, even in its darkest moments, oddly comforting.
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MojoAug 17, 2022His voice remains strident as the album veers from pared-down solo to spritely contributions from the likes of Chaim Tannenbaum and David Mansfield, plus a less successful string arrangement. [Sep 2022, p.90]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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Aug 21, 2022
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Aug 20, 2022
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Aug 21, 2022so mid! I could not listen to it anymore, Mainwright should be more like Lady Gaga for her future if they want career.
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Aug 21, 2022it's boring i don't know what to say about it. should be better but maybe the next time
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