Me & My Friend The Cat/Motel Blues/Nice Jewish Girls/Be Careful, There's A Baby In The House/I Know I'm Unhappy-Suicide Song-Glenville Reel/Saw Your Name In The Paper/Samson & The Warden/Plane Too/Cook That Dinner Dora/Old Friend/Old Paint/Winter Song
Follow up album from the American folk singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III who came from a musical family. He enjoyed a cult following in the early 1970s which was never converted into commercial success.
“Wainwright's voice is high and scratchy but well suited to his folk style, and the way he delivers his songs that way is a part of the reason I like him so much as a writer and a performer. This album, a fitting successor to the first, really goes one step further in its plaintive wailing.”
“Definitely a step up from Album I. It goes along real strong and it finishes well with Winter Song. Samson & The Warden is a real gem. LWIII loves his cleverness and this is one of the times he really pulls it off. If you like folk music that is only a little bit silly, pick this up.”
“Album II picks up the baton from Album I without any real discernable change. He may have sneaked in the occasional piano accompaniment, and his wife Kate McGarrigle makes a brief appearance but, essentially, this is another album from Wainwright and his sidekick the acoustic guitar. Things have improved slightly but not enough for me to hail Wainwright as one of the great singer-songwriters.”
“Most of his records are worth a few listens, and are in places very funny. But I like to go back to this album, just Loudon on guitar mostly, and funny in a very dark way. Sounds like the work of a guy who's been living alone in a shack for too long. And that's something you don't hear every day. Extra half star for having the whiniest vocals ever.”
“There are some enduring songs here like Motel Blues and Be Careful There's A Baby In The House, and plenty of the wry, witty, incisive and sometimes self-excoriating lyrics which have made Loudon Wainwright one of the best singer-songwriters of my generation.”
“This is not one of his better albums. His voice doesn't sound as mature as it does on his later releases. Here Loudon was getting his foot in the record business; a decent album but not his best.”
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