Final Exam (album)
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| Studio album by Loudon Wainwright III | ||||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Studio | MZH Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | John Lissauer | |||
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Final Exam is a 1978 album by Loudon Wainwright III. It was re-released on Telarc in 2006 at the time of his European tour as a double-disk album, coupled with his 1976 album T Shirt.
The backing band were Slow Train; consisting of John Crowder, Richard Crooks, Ron Getman, Glen Mitchell and Stephen Tubin.
At this point in his career, Wainwright was including a lot of electric and rockier songs. After poor reviews of T-Shirt and Final Exam the latter became his last studio album for five years. He emerged, reborn as an acoustic writer backed by acoustic folk/rock musicians. He disowned Final Exam in an Australian radio interview in the early 1990s, but changed his mind and embraced it (and T-Shirt) according to the liner notes to the 2006 release.
All tracks composed by Loudon Wainwright III
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