The McGarrigle Hour is a 1998 album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle, were a pair of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed as a duo until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.-Profile:...

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The album was recorded at a family gathering, including Kate's former husband Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.To...

, their son and daughter Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...

 and Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...

, Anna's husband Dane Lanken

Dane Lanken

Dane Lanken is a Canadian journalist.He was a film critic for the Montreal Gazette from 1967 to 1977, and has since been a freelance journalist who writes regularly for Canadian Geographic, among other publications....

, their son and daughter Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken

Lily Lanken

Lily Lanken is a Canadian pop vocalist.Born in Montreal, she is the daughter of Anna McGarrigle and Dane Lanken. She graduated in 2006 from Concordia University with a bachelor's degree in fine arts...

, and Kate and Anna's sister Jane McGarrigle

Jane McGarrigle

Jane McGarrigle is a Canadian songwriter and musician.She is the elder sister of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and has written and performed several songs with the duo. She produced their album Love Over and Over. Songs she co-wrote have been recorded by Nana Mouskouri and by Emmylou Harris...

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Several of the McGarrigle sisters' friends and collaborators, including Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

, Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...

, Chaim Tannenbaum, Joel Zifkin

Joel Zifkin

Joel Zifkin is a Canadian musician and songwriter born in Montreal on April 14, 1954. He is best known as a session and live musician for artists such as Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Richard Thompson...

 and Philippe Tatartcheff

Philippe Tatartcheff

Philippe Tatartcheff is a Canadian poet and songwriter who grew up in Timmins, Ontario. His father, Dr. Michael Tatartcheff, was a physician and surgeon in Timmins, and his grandfather, Dr. Assen Tatartcheff, was a member of the Macedonian Liberation Front IMRE...

, also appear on the album.

The combo perform a mix of traditional folk tunes, pop standards and original material by the participants.

Track listing

1. "School Days" – 2:52 - Loudon Wainwright III
   Loudon Wainwright III
   Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.To...
   
   
2. "Skip Rope Song" – 2:34 - Jesse Winchester
   Jesse Winchester
   Jesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
   
   
3. "Gentle Annie
   Gentle Annie (song)
   "Gentle Annie" is a popular American song composed by Stephen Foster in 1856. The song has original lyrics but is said to be based on a traditional Irish melody. According to his niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, there is a tradition that it was written in honor of Annie Jenkins, the daughter of a...
   
   " – 2:59 - Stephen Foster
   Stephen Foster
   Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
   
   
4. "Alice Blue Gown" – 2:39 - Joseph McCarthy/Harry Tierney
   Harry Tierney
   Harry Austin Tierney was a successful American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene , Broadway's longest-running show of the era , Kid Boots and Rio Rita , one of the first musicals to be turned into a talking picture .Born...
   
   
5. "Porte en arrière" – 3:05 - D. L. Menard
6. "What'll I Do?" – 3:37 - Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
   
   
7. "Dig My Grave" – 2:38 - traditional
8. "Cool River" – 3:32 - Anna/Audrey Bean
9. "Heartburn" – 2:28 - Rufus Wainwright
   Rufus Wainwright
   Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
   
   
10. "NaCl (Sodium Chloride)" – 2:30 - Kate
11. "Bon Voyage" – 3:25 - Jacques Laure/Danny Small
12. "Allez-vous en" – 3:43 - Cole Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
    
    
13. "Green, Green Rocky Road" – 3:54 - traditional
14. "Young Love" – 3:23 - Rick Cartey/Carole Joyner
15. "Year of the Dragon" – 5:20 - Martha Wainwright
    Martha Wainwright
    Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
    
    
16. "Forever and the Same" – 3:29 - Anna/Philippe Tatartcheff
    Philippe Tatartcheff
    Philippe Tatartcheff is a Canadian poet and songwriter who grew up in Timmins, Ontario. His father, Dr. Michael Tatartcheff, was a physician and surgeon in Timmins, and his grandfather, Dr. Assen Tatartcheff, was a member of the Macedonian Liberation Front IMRE...
    
    
17. "Talk to Me of Mendocino" – 2:58 - Kate
18. "Baltimore Fire" – 3:15 - traditional
19. "Johnny's Gone to Hilo" – 3:09 - traditional
20. "Time On My Hands" – 4:15 - Chaim Tannenbaum
21. "Goodnight Sweetheart
    Goodnight, Sweetheart (1931 song)
    "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is a popular song of the 1930s and 1940s, and was written by the British song-writing team of Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, and performed by Rudy Vallée, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, among others....
    
    " – 2:09 - Jimmy Campbell
    Jimmy Campbell
    Jimmy Campbell may refer to:* Jimmy Campbell , Scottish footballer* Jimmy Campbell , English singer-songwriter* Jimmy Campbell , British songwriter and music publisher, known for his collaborations with Reg Connelly...
    
    /Reginald Connelly/Ray Noble
    Ray Noble (musician)
    Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...