Career Moves

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Career Moves
Live album by Loudon Wainwright III
Released	1993
Recorded	January 8, 1993 at The Bottom Line, NYC
Genre	Folk
Length	73:52
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Loudon Wainwright III, Jeffrey Lesser
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link
Loudon Wainwright III chronology
History (1992) Career Moves (1993) Grown Man (1995)

Career Moves is a 1993 live album by Loudon Wainwright III - his first since 1980's A Live One, which itself compiled mid 70's live recordings.

In other words it is a compilation of Wainwright's songs, mostly from the 80's, but with a generous fistful of new tracks. All Music Guide awards it 4.5 out of 5 stars, and it probably remains as representative an introduction to Wainwright's work and styles as anything he's recorded before or since.

It also has the virtue of including the important 'April Fool's Day Morn', originally from Fame and Wealth, which was inexplicably left off the compilation '1983-86', as well as 'Thanksgiving' from the otherwise uncompiled 'Therapy'.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Road Ode" – 5:09
2. "I'm Alright" – 3:00
3. "Five Years Old" – 3:08
4. "Your Mother and I" – 2:29
5. "Westchester County" – 3:20
6. "He Said, She Said" – 3:30
7. "Christmas Rap" – 0:27
8. "Suddenly It's Christmas" – 2:23
9. "Thanksgiving" – 4:51
10. "A Fine Celtic Name" – 2:57
11. "T.S.M.N.W.A." – 3:28
12. "Some Balding Guys" – 1:28
13. "The Swimming Song" – 2:26
14. "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder" – 3:00
15. "Happy Birthday Elvis" – 2:47
16. "Fabulous Songs" – 0:26
17. "Unhappy Anniversary" – 2:54
18. "I'd Rather Be Lonely" – 2:59
19. "Just Say No" – 0:33
20. "April Fool's Day Morn" – 4:14
21. "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" – 5:04
22. "The Acid Song" – 5:55
23. "Tip That Waitress" – 4:15
24. "Career Moves" – 3:09

• Tracks 1, 6, 8, 11, 15 and 23 are premiere appearances.
• Tracks 7, 10, 12, 16 and 19 are spoken word segues.
• Tracks 13 and 21 originally appeared on the 1973 album Attempted Mustache.
• Track 14 originally appeared on the 1979 album Unrequited.
• Tracks 3, 5 and 20 originally appeared on the 1983 album Fame and Wealth.
• Tracks 2 and 24 originally appeared on the 1985 album I'm Alright.
• Tracks 4, 17 and 22 originally appeared on the 1986 album More Love Songs.
• Track 9 originally appeared on the 1989 album Therapy.
• Track 18 originally appeared on the 1992 album History.

[edit] Release history

• CD: Virgin CDV2718

[edit] Miscellanea

• "T.S.M.N.W.A." stands for "They Spelled My Name Wrong Again".