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Wainwright Family Tree: Anna and Kate McGarrigle, Reissued and Expanded

May 6, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

When Kate McGarrigle succumbed to cancer in February 2010, the music world lost one of its brightest lights.  The wife of Loudon Wainwright III and mother of Rufus Wainwright, Kate proved herself a keen observer of the world as both a songwriter and a performer, most often with her older sister Anna.  The very same week Loudon’s long career was celebrated with the release of a career-spanning box set, Nonesuch released a three-disc collection devoted to Kate and Anna McGarrigle.  Tell My Sister reissues the McGarrigle Sisters’ first two albums, 1975’s Kate and Anna McGarrigle and its follow-up, 1977’s Dancer with Bruised Knees.  To these two remastered records Nonesuch adds an entire disc of unreleased performances including demos, never-before-heard songs and alternate versions of familiar tracks.

Kate and Anna McGarrigle was produced by Greg Prestopino and Joe Boyd, the British producer well-known for his work with Fairport Convention, R.E.M. and Nick Drake.    Prestopino and Boyd surrounded the Canadian sisters with top talent including Bobby Keys, Steve Gadd, Lowell George, David Spinozza, Russ Kunkel and even saxophone great Plas Johnson.  This debut LP featured the sisters’ version of one bona fide standard.  Anna’s “Heart Like a Wheel” was the title track of Linda Ronstadt’s 1974 Capitol Records swansong, the album that propelled Ronstadt to worldwide fame.  The LP featured one song by Loudon Wainwright III (“Swimming Song”) but Wainwright’s contribution was of a piece with the sisters’, whose own often-beautiful songs have a similar humanity and wit.

Dancer with Bruised Knees came in 1977, reuniting the sisters with the same production team.  Producer Boyd has expressed the opinion that this album’s main failing was simply being the follow-up to such a perfect debut.  While it didn’t garner the same high praise as its predecessor, Dancer was another step forward for the sisters’ traditional folk sound.  John Cale joined the proceedings, as did bluegrass legend Bill Monroe.  British folkies Dave Mattacks and Pat Donaldson also appeared.  Like the first album, there are songs sung in French, traditional folk staples and new songs including the haunting “Southern Boys.”

The third disc of Tell My Sister offers a healthy 21 tracks.  Some are from a Kate solo demo recorded in 1971, and other tracks derived from album pre-production sessions.  The songs are largely spare (even more so than on the finished album), bringing the sisters’ gorgeous harmonies to the fore.  “Saratoga Summer Song” and Kate’s collaboration with Loudon, “Over the Hill,” are among the disc’s standouts.  There are alternate versions of favorites like “Southern Boys,” “Heart Like a Wheel” and “(Talk to Me of) Mendocino.”

Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s 3-CD retrospective Tell My Sister is available in stores now.  Hit the jump for the track listing with discographical annotation and a link to order!

Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Tell My Sister (Nonesuch 527267, 2011)

Disc 1: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros. LP BS-2682, 1975)

  1. Kiss and Say Goodbye
  2. My Town
  3. Blues in D
  4. Heart Like a Wheel
  5. Foolish You
  6. (Talk to Me of) Mendocino
  7. Complainte Pour Ste-Catherine
  8. Tell My Sister
  9. Swimming Song
  10. Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
  11. Go Leave
  12. Travelling On For Jesus

Disc 2: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Warner Bros. LP BS-3014, 1977)

  1. Dancer with Bruised Knees
  2. Southern Boys
  3. No Biscuit Blues
  4. First Born
  5. Blanche Comme La Neige
  6. Perrine Etait Servante
  7. Be My Baby
  8. Walking Song
  9. Naufragee du Tendre [Shipwrecked]
  10. Homage a Grungie
  11. Kitty Come Home
  12. Come a Long Way

Disc 3

  1. The Work Song
  2. Come Back Baby
  3. Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
  4. Saratoga Summer Song
  5. Annie
  6. On My Way to Town
  7. Roses Blanches
  8. Heart Like a Wheel
  9. Kiss and Say Goodbye
  10. Southern Boys
  11. Willie Moore
  12. Oliver, Remember Me?
  13. My Town
  14. Blues in E
  15. Walking Song
  16. Tell My Sister
  17. Over the Hill
  18. Come a Long Way
  19. (Talk to Me of) Mendocino
  20. Heart Like a Wheel
  21. (Talk to Me of) Mendocino

All tracks on Disc 3 previously unreleased.

Categories: News Tags: Loudon Wainwright III

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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