On “Far Away” – the first song on her self-titled 2005 debut – Martha Wainwright sings: I have no children I have no husband I have no reason to be alive Now, a decade later, Wainwright is a mother of […]
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Loudon Wainwright III Calgary Folk Festival 2015
Lucy Wainwright Roche normally travels alone. When reached by telephone in Minneapolis recently, she had already spent several weeks in a car with her dog, Maeby, and her mother, acclaimed singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche (The Roches), in tow. “We’ve been spending a […]
When his first two virtually interchangeable albums were released in 1970 and ’71, Loudon Wainwright III was touted as one of the many Next Dylans of the era, which was hard to fathom even then. Sure, he was in his […]
Though it’s packaged to look like a set of ripped-from-the-headlines topical songs, this is Loudon Wainwright’s most personal album in years. He continues to hone his eye for detail, directed both out at the world around him and inward at […]
Ten minutes into this live album, a voice rises from the audience to make a tentative request: “‘Cobwebs?’” “‘Cobwebs?!’” Wainwright hollers back in mock horror. “That’s impossible!” And then he goes ahead and plays it anyway, even though he can’t […]
The unexpected success of Loudon Wainwright III’s 1972 bluegrassy novelty tune, “Dead Skunk”, put unwanted pressure on the singer. And, as Wainwright says in the liner notes to the recent reissue of his first post-Skunk album, his attempt to capitalize […]
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