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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT ANNOUNCES LOVE WILL BE REBORN DIGITAL DELUXE EDITION OUT APRIL 8
BRAND NEW MEMOIR STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU OUT TODAY
(Toronto, ON – March 29, 2022) – Acclaimed and beloved singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright’s brand-new memoir Stories I Might Regret Telling You is out today! The memoir dives into growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more. To accompany the release of her memoir, Martha is set to release the digital deluxe edition of her latest album Love Will be Reborn on April 8. A companion to the memoir, the five new tracks are talked about in the memoir, including 4 covers of her family’s songs and a reimagined version of the title track.
The deluxe edition includes moving renditions of “Thanksgiving” originally by Loudon Wainwright III, Martha’s father, “Dinner at Eight” by her brother Rufus Wainwright, “Go Leave” by her mother Kate McGarrigle and more. Diving into recording these tracks Martha explains:
“Recorded at URSA in front of a small audience of friends these are songs that I talk about in my memoir Stories I Might Regret Telling You. They relate to family and its complexity, as well as pain, feelings of loss, and ultimately forgiveness and acceptance. I have heard them my whole life and now I have the chance to sing them. Recorded in a live setting and in a very striped down and exposed way, with my good friend and wonderful piano player Edwin de Goeij, we had only just learned to sing and play them and are exploring with the listener in the moment. A sometimes bumpy and emotional ride, these recordings are about the words and the meaning. The songs speak for themselves and they are songs of our time about modern family and some of the trials of life.”
Born into music royalty, Martha is the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the acclaimed singer Rufus Wainwright. This powerful and beautiful memoir is brutally honest, raw and brave. Martha does not hold back, openly sharing her personal struggles. It’s deeply moving, personal and revealing.
Order Stories I Might Regret Telling You HERE
Fans and critics have praised Love Will Be Reborn, including positive reviews from American Songwriter, Pitchfork, Le Devoir, Spin, UNCUT, The Toronto Star, and more! Like most records in the past two years, Love Will Be Reborn was made during the pandemic and recorded in Wainwright’s hometown of Montreal, in the basement of her brand-new cafe, Ursa, which also served as a studio. Enlisting the help of Toronto musicians Thom Gill, Phil Melanson, Morgan Moore and Josh Cole and producer Pierre Marchand, best-known for his collaborations with Sarah McLachlan producing some of her iconic 90s songs. Marchand also has a familial connection to Wainwright, having produced her brother Rufus’s second album Poses as well as Wainwright’s mother and aunt’s record, Heartbeats Accelerating. It was a record made after some time, much like Wainwright’s gap since 2016’s Goodnight City, and McGarrigle was the same age that Wainwright is now. It seems like a musical synergy only the late McGarrigle and Wainwright could have.
Wainwright has several special book events upcoming alongside several upcoming tour dates. See below.
Praise for Love Will Be Reborn
“Fizzing creativity is audible across the whole record…a welcome return after 5 years”
– Uncut 8/10
‘Album of the Week’
– Sunday Times Culture
“She frequently weaponizes her voice, snarling and howling her pain into the ether…What an extraordinary artist Martha Wainwright is.’”
– The Independent ****
“Love Will Be Reborn could be considered Martha Wainwright’s tour de force”
– American Songwriter
“Exquisitely moving and masterful”
– Spin
“Fearless, untethered arrangements…. Wainwright’s fifth LP has artistry galore”
– MOJO ****
On par with Patti Smith’s early work with albums such as “Horses” and Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush”
– The Toronto Star
Track list with excerpts from the book:
Thanksgiving (originally by Loudon Wainwright III, Martha’s father)
“Nothing bad has happened yet,” followed by him sing-speaking in a lower register, “and everyone is happy.” It’s from a song of his called “Thanksgiving” on a record called Therapy, and refers to a photograph, or a time, really, when everything was okay in my father’s family—my family.
Dinner at Eight (originally by Rufus Wainwright, Martha’s brother)
Rufus’ song about Loudon
Tell My Sister (originally by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Martha’s Mother and Aunt)
That terrible time, along with her love for Loudon and his rejection of her, inspired a few of Kate’s most well-known and powerful songs, including “Tell My Sister,” which is the one of hers I sing in concert the most (Tell my sister to tell my mother I’m coming home . . . alone).
Love Will Be Reborn
Martha’s reinterpretation of the album’s title track
Go Leave (originally by Kate McGarrigle, Martha’s Mother)
“Go Leave,” where she sings about another woman.
Go, leave
She’s better than me
Or at least she is stronger
She will make it last longer
That’s nice for you. . . .
I remember days when we laughed a lot
Those that weren’t so good I soon forgot
We could sit and talk till words
Were coming out our ears
Not just for days or weeks or months
But it’s been years
Now here they come
Here come my tears
In the recording on Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Kate accompanies herself masterfully on the guitar. It is only her and the instrument and as she plays the very last note you can hear a tiny bell ring out. Kate told me it was the sound of a tear falling on the string. It cut me up pretty hard.
BOOK EVENTS
04.04 – Toronto, ON – Another Story Bookshop @ Lula Lounge
04 10 – Quebec City, QC – Imagination Writers’ Festival
04.11 – Winnipeg, MB – Virtual event with McNally Robinson
04.12 – Montréal. QC – Book launch with Paragraphe Books at the Rialto Hall
04.13 – Oakville, ON – Oakville Center for the Performing Arts and A Different Drummer Books
04.28 – Moncton, NB – Frye Festival
05.05 – Montréal, QC – Atwater Public Library Lunch series
05.13 – Ottawa, ON – Ottawa Writers Festival
05.15 – Hamilton, ON – Virtual luncheon event with Na’amat Hamilton
05.29 – Hudson, QC – StoryFest
TOUR DATES
03.29 – New York, NY – City Winery
03.30 – New York, NY – City Winery
04.21 – Quebec City, QC Grand Théâtre de Québec (w/ Ariane Moffatt)
04.22 – Quebec City, QC Grand Théâtre de Québec (w/ Ariane Moffatt)
04.26 – Carleton-sur-Mer, QC – Quai des Arts
04.27 – Moncton, NB – Capitol Theatre
04.29 – Châteauguay, QC – Pavilion de l’Île
04.30 – Montmagny, QC – Salle Edwin-Bélanger
05.04 – Drummondville, QC – Maison des Arts Des
05.05 – Victoriaville, QC – Cabaret Guy-Aubert
05.14 – Prince Edward County, ON – The Eddie
05.20 – Ste-Thérèse, QC – Eglise Ste-Thérèse d’Avila
06.11 – Ste-Marcelline, QC – Vielle Chapelle de Ste-Marcelline
06.18 – Tadoussac, QC – Festival de la Chanson de Tadoussac
07.27 – London, UK – Cadogen Hall
07.28 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon
08.05 – Wickham, UK – Wickham Festival
08.21 – Halifax, NS – The Stage At St. Andrews
More info:
https://www.marthawainwright.com/