Loudon Wainwright III

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Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American composer, folk singer, satirist, and actor.

Sloan Wainwright's sister is the grandson of the house of Commons.

Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche's father are among musicians.

He is the former husband of Kate McGarrigle, a late folksinger who lives on Long Island, New York, and is the former husband of the late folksinger. Wainwright has released 26 studio albums to date.

"You could generalize the catalog as a little checked," he said, "but I prefer to think of it as a tapestry." Wainwright's autobiography, Liner Notes: Parents & Children, Excess, Death & Decay, and a Few of My Other Favorite Things appeared in October 2017.

Early life

Wainwright was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Martha Taylor, a yoga instructor, and Loudon Wainwright Jr., a columnist and editor for Life magazine. A. Loudon Snowden, a politician and diplomat, was his great-grandfather. His father was not a professional musician, but he did write some songs, exposing his children to artists like Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, whom Wainwright later referred to as influences. Wainwright grew up in Bedford, New York, in Westchester County. Sloan Wainwright, a singer and songwriter, is one of his siblings.

Personal life

Wainwright's first marriage, to singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, ended in divorce. They had two children during their marriage: Rufus and Martha, both of whom are musicians.

Wainwright had a friendship with singer Suzzy Roche, during which they had a daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, who is also a singer. The friendship came to an end, but Wainwright and Roche remain on good terms and occasionally appear on stage together, often with Lucy.

Ritamarie Kelly was Wainwright's second marriage, and the pair lived in Los Angeles. This resulted in divorce as well. Alexandra (Lexie) Kelly Wainwright, a 1993 child, has a sister.

Wainwright has worked with Susan Morrison, an editor at The New Yorker, since 2015.

Rufus Is a Tit Man" (referring to his breastfeeding) and "A Father and a Son" a retrospective, Wainright's son.

Martha Wainwright's songs inspired by her are "That Hospital" (about visiting a hospital during her pregnancy for an attempted abortion), "Mega Little Martha" (about missing her fifth birthday), "Iraquo" (about attacking her), and "I'd Rather Be Lonely." Martha told The Guardian, "For the most part of my childhood Loudon talked to me in song, it's a snarky thing to do," Loudon does always come across as funny and charming, although the majority of us seem to be like whining victims." He has a daughter who smokes and drinks too much and writes songs with titles like 'Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole.'

"I would never forget the time, that moment,... getting out and whacking my kid, it's not something I will ever forget." Wainwright said of "Hitting You" ("Hitting You" It was an interesting performance there."

Martha had mistook that "I'd Rather Be Lonely" was about an old girlfriend, but was shocked when Wainwright told an audience that it was about his daughter. "I've always felt sorry for the poor woman I suspected it was about because of the line": "Every time I see you cry, I'm just a clone of every woman I've ever encountered." I saw Loudon on tour once more, and he announced to the crowd: "I wrote this song about my daughter." I had no idea. We lived in New York for a year as I was 14 years old, and the song 'I'd Rather Be Lonely' was about the time. He's definitely crossed the line." Martha wrote in her book "I'd rather be lonely" and realized that the song was about her "a piece of me wanted to leap to my death from my tiny seat. Or, better yet, take off the night, leaving him standing outside, waiting for me. However, the performance must go on, so I dried my tears and marched down the stairs to the stage."

Rufus has written the song "Dinner at Eight" about his father's tumultuous marriage. Martha and her father performed a duet on "Father Daughter Dialogue" (on Loudon's 1995 album, Grown Man) and collaborated on the song "You Never Phone" (on Loudon's 2003 live album, So Damn Happy).

Kate McGarrigle, Wainright's first wife, wrote her song "Go Leave" about Wainwright. She relates how her then-husband escaped to Europe in the 1970s with performance artist Penny Arcade. McGarrigle, who was pregnant at the time, travelled from Canada to England in search of him. She lost the child, but Wainwright told her that he was leaving her. It's "the most wretchly painful song ever," Martha says. You can imagine a tear falling on a string of her guitar at the end. I used to listen to it as a child and then cry my eyes out."

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Career

Wainwright's career began in the 1960s. He had played the guitar before entering school, but after moving to San Francisco, he sold it for yoga lessons. Wainwright's grandmother gave him a job in a boatyard later this year in Rhode Island. Edgar, an elderly lobsterman, inspired him to borrow a friend's guitar and write his first song, "Edgar." Wainwright bought his first guitar and recorded nearly 20 songs in less than a year. He went to Boston and New York City to compete in folk clubs, and Milton Kramer, who became his manager, was spotted. He signed a record with Atlantic, which followed his self-titled debut album in 1970.

Wainwright is perhaps best known for his 1972 novelty song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road) and his role as Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television series M*A*S*H.

Wainwright has released over twenty albums on eleven separate labels in a witty, self-mocking style. I'm Alright (1985), More Love Songs (1986), and High Wide & Handsome (2009), three of his albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards: I'm Alright (1985), The Charlie Poole Project (2009), for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in January 2010.

Wainwright has appeared in a number of films, including small parts in The Aviator, Big Fish, Elizabethtown, and Knocked Up, as well as the television series Undeclared and Parks and Recreation. He recorded sessions for John Peel from 1971 to 1982 in the United Kingdom and appeared on BBC TV and Radio 1 in February 1978 (known as Sight and Sound in Concert). However, he gained a lot of clout in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, when he appeared as the resident singer with comedian Jasper Carrott in his film Carrott Confidential.

In the first season's fifth episode, which was hosted by Robert Klein and broadcast on November 15, 1975, he appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. He performed "Bicentennial" and "Unrequited to the Nth Degree" and "Bicentennial."

Wainwright has claimed that, like many of his contemporaries, he was inspired musically by seeing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. He was one of many young folk singers dubbed "the new Dylan" in the early 1970s, a fact that he later satirized in his song "Talking New Bob Dylan" from the album History (1992).

Wainwright was a judge for the fourth annual AIM Independent Music Awards.

Following the death of his mother in 1997, the singer went into a period of deep depression and feared he would never write again. He returned to his mother's cabin in the woods and slowly recovered, eventually becoming the Last Man on Earth in 2001.

The music for the 2007 Judd Apatow film Knocked Up was composed by Wainwright and musician Joe Henry. Wainwright appeared in the film in a supporting role as the protagonists' obstetrician, in addition to composing the soundtrack. He has also composed music for Carl Hiasen's latest theatre performance, Lucky You, which premiered in Edinburgh, England, in 2008.

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