Loudon Wainwright III grew up in the town of Bedford in wealthy Westchester County north of New York City, the son of Loudon S. Wainwright, Jr., a writer and editor at Life magazine and a direct ...

Wainwright's music centers on family, and how we hurt and heal each other. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1992 and '17 about his life as a husband,... Loudon Wainwright III Opens Up About The 'Exes & Excess ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Sam Briger, sitting in for Terry Gross. Loudon Wainwright is best known for his confessional songs about family dysfunction and satirical songs about politics and other issues.

Loudon Wainwright III is best known for doing a few things: being a wry, witty songwriter; being the patriarch of a talented musical family; even for being an actor (he shows up in moves like Big Fish ...

For most people (well, for old people), the first time they ever heard of singer/songwriter/actor Loudon Wainwright III was by way of a cute song with a slight country flavor called "Dead Skunk (in ...

Lifetime Achievement is as good a place as any to remedy the absence of Loudon in your life. He’s always got something to say, and sometimes they’re pretty serious things – things to do with love, ...

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Even when Loudon Wainwright III was writing songs in his early 20s, many of his characters were already looking back wistfully at their younger days -- such as the protagonist of his 1970 recording ...

Say this about the pandemic: There are now enough songs about Covid-19 to make for a pretty eclectic playlist. The track lineup would include T Turbo, Gunna and Young Thug’s chilled-out “Quarantine ...

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