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Sep 5, 2022 · Mon 5 Sep 2022 01.00 EDT. W hisper it: Loudon Wainwright III is happy. The great curmudgeon of popular music has spent 50-plus years picking at old scabs, showcasing his selfishness and...
Aug 19, 2022 · August 19, 20221:17 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Ken Tucker. 6-Minute Listen. Playlist. The singer-songwriter is known for his intensely autobiographical writing. When Wainwright turned 75...
Actor: Big Fish. Loudon Snowden Wainwright III was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Martha Taylor, a yoga teacher, and Loudon Wainwright II, longtime editor of Life Magazine. LWIII eschewed magazines in favor of folk music, which he began playing professionally in the '60s.
About Loudon. Born in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1946, Loudon Wainwright III came to fame when “Dead Skunk” became a Top 20 hit in 1972. He had studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon University, but dropped out to partake in the Summer of Love in San Francisco, and wrote his first song in 1968 (“Edgar,” about a lobsterman in Rhode Island).
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Aug 19, 2022 · Friday 19 August 2022 06:30 BST. Comments. Wainwright: ‘Because I played the guitar, and was a guy, and wrote good songs, I was tagged as the new Bob Dylan’ (Shervin Lainez) L oudon Wainwright...
Oct 6, 2020 · August 30, 2005 • Loudon Wainwright III first rose to fame in the late 1960s as a witty and honest songwriter. In recent years, he has also become known as Rufus Wainwright's father — and as...
