Emerging from the darkness, Loudon Wainwright III walks on stage strumming his guitar in the darkness. Lights come up on a stage set with a chair and a circular table with three water glasses. Behind is a video screen. A…
Loudon Wainwright III, the precociously talented songwriter and exemplary troubadour, is performing dates this weekend at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Father of the prodigious songwriters Rufus, Martha and Lucy Wainwright, Loudon is known for wildly entertaining narrative songs with an…
Folk royalty, that’s what Loudon Wainwright III is. As the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche and former husband of the late folksinger Kate McGarrigle, he has musical pedigree. Like Red Rum with a banjo.…
Loudon Wainwright’s voice is still in sharp and fine fettle. Not only that, but the meaning the words seem to carry is both profound and delightful. A man, in his late sixties, with bitter and joyous memories, and a voice…
IT’S FAIR TO SAY that Loudon Wainwright has had an Interesting Life. Born in North Carolina in 1946, he’s released 22 studio albums, played a singing surgeon in M*A*S*H, been nominated for 3 Grammys, recorded iconic sessions with the late,…
Loudon Wainwright’s 22nd album ‘Older Than My Old Man Now’ is another addition to his extensive folk-rock autobiography. At 65 some would say he’s not old, just older, but he’s at the point of feeling it. After the quite recent…