Loudon Wainwright III
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'Covid-Pop' Is a New Genre, and Loudon Wainwright III Brings the Latest Addition
In his new track "Town & Country," the acerbic troubadour chronicles the thrill of returning to the big city after lockdown--and the fun and dangers that await anyone there.
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Rufus Wainwright on His Audible Project, 'Road Trip Elegies,' and Why He Finally Covered Dylan
Plus, listen to an exclusive audio excerpt from his Audible Original, including his cover of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
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Loudon Wainwright III Is Still the Poet Laureate of Family Dysfunction
Rufus and Martha's dad weighs in on revisiting the songs that turned on his parents, losing friends like John Prine to COVID-19, and finding inspiration in his seventies
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13 New Albums to Stream Now: Carrie Underwood, 'Basement Beehive,' Aphex Twin and More Editors' Picks
Carrie Underwood's populist country, the proto-punk girl power of the 'Basement Beehive' compilation and more new albums to stream now
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10 Best Music Books of 2017
Reliving the Strokes' heyday, reassessing Dylan's 'gospel' phase, and taking a surreal journey with Art Garfunkel
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Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)
Loudon Wainwright III's latest album is a long joke, full of wry commentary on weighty topics like mortality and lonesomeness. It opens with the rousing "Brand New Dance," whose curmudgeonly narrator "look[s] into the abyss," and closes with "Last Day of the Year," which starts hopeful, then goes sour. Even straightforward cuts rely on small […]
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Older Than My Old Man Now
Loudon Wainwright III’s 22nd album extends the folk-rock autobiography that's made his body of work so impressive. It's a saga filled with Oedipal tension (his dad was a famed journalist, his son is Rufus Wainwright) and fraught love (ex-wives Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche are folk icons)."The Days That We Die," featuring a passage written […]
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40 Odd Years
Known for his excellent taste in singer-songwriters (ex-wives Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche) and his top-shelf DNA (kids Rufus and Martha Wainwright), Loudon Wainwright III is also one hell of a songsmith. With notes by pal Judd Apatow, this career retrospective is long on hilarious memoir, and lyrics about being a boozy, tragic pussy hound […]
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