Loudon Wainwright III Shares Video for Unreleased 1985 Song 'Floods of Tears': Premiere

by Gary Graff

Loudon Wainwright III considers his upcoming compilation Years in the Making an "audiobiography." And rest assured the two-disc, 42-track set, coming out Sept. 14, features plenty of his story that you've never heard before -- including the previously unreleased "Floods of Tears," whose video is premiering exclusively below.

Put together by Wainwright and regular collaborator Dick Connette, Years in the Making pulls together all sorts of Wainwright recorded ephemera from his vaults, including deep album tracks, outtakes, home demos, live recordings, radio appearances and more. There are recordings of his children singing "Happy Birthday" to him, along with his "The Animal Song," alongside collaborations with Suzzy Roche, Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks and Wainwright's first wife, the late Kate McGarrigle, dueting on a 1974 home recording of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Going Nowhere."

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