Roadtrip Elegies: The McCabes Sessions is acollection of songs recorded by Rufus Wainwright at the iconic McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA in March of 2020. The audience in attendance included songwriters like Burt Bacharach and Mike Stoller, who had been a bridge between Tin Pan Alley and Rock & Roll, conjuring the breadth of the shows repertoire. Jackson Brownes presence symbolized the evolution of folk into the kind of exquisitely crafted songs which Rufus is known for. From the opening burst of Harold Arlens No Business Like Show Business, Rufus unified nearly a century of popular music with an ease that made The Roches, Irving Berlin and Schubert sound perfectly natural together.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. There’s No Business Like Show Business

2. Cheek To Cheek

3. Maybe

4. Kathleen

5. The Train

6. People Will Say We’re In Love

Side B

1. Hollywood Hopeful

2. Saratoga Summer Song

3. Night And Day

4. E-Poi

5. He Loved

6. Stand Up And Sing For Your Father An Old Time Tune

Side C

1. Brother Can You Spare A Dime

2. I’ll Be Home

3. Islands In The Stream

4. Heart Like A Wheel

5. Go Leave

Side D

1. Your Mother & I

2. Dear World

3. Hard Rain

4. On Broadway

5. Windows Of The World

6. Ring Them Bells