Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright

Author:Martha Wainwright [Wainwright, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Brad and I were now so intertwined that I thought it would be best to make my second record with somebody else. I’d gotten used to playing with a band and, as a result, some of the songs I was writing were a little more rocky and upbeat than the stuff on my debut album. In classic form, the labels and I felt that my second record could afford to be more pop and commercial, a pretty common trajectory for singer-songwriters. I had gotten a taste of the limelight and wanted to be more famous (maybe not as famous as Brad wished I was) and to make more money.

Well, the fame and money haven’t come through yet, but I have to say I really like the second record, though it didn’t turn out to be poppy in the slightest. It does succeed at being aggressive, which is maybe not the most attractive trait in my music, but at least it’s refreshing to hear a woman who is not the least demure or coquettish.

In the end, Brad ended up producing some songs on the album, basically because he didn’t like what the other producers were doing. I had been doing a lot of shows in Norway and Sweden and worked with two different producers from there, Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall, Jason Mraz, James Morrison) and Tore Johansson (Franz Ferdinand, the Cardigans, OK Go), who are career pop producers with credits that go on and on forever. Brad felt he needed to step in and fix things. I felt I needed to let him produce some songs so he’d be happier. Maybe we accomplished both? I don’t know. We were all tangled up in blues.

The title of the record became I Know You’re Married but I’ve Got Feelings Too, a line from one of the songs, “Bleeding All Over You.” (Brad didn’t much like the title either.) On it, there are songs about restlessness and about wanting to be loved, about my tormented love for Brad, about my friend George dying, about wishing I were someone else, and risqué lines about “my hole.” There are two relatively unfriendly songs about Loudon, so I think he and I are even on that score. There’s also one about Kate’s cancer. I called it my “Scandinavian” record.

Both Donald Fagen and Pete Townshend played on it. I met Pete and his partner, Rachel Fuller, when they had invited me to appear on their online TV show and Pete played along on a couple of my songs. I was overwhelmed, but it was the beginning of a friendship with the innovative and brilliant artist and his wonderful partner. These musical relationships with my elders (fathers?) have always been important to me. Rufus, Lily, and Kate are also on the album. We recorded tracks in London, Malmö, Sweden, and New York, perfect for the traveler in me.

When I go back and listen to these older records, I regret that most people will never hear them or know anything about me and my work.

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