Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is a Grammy
Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the
father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright
Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk
singer Kate McGarrigle. To date, Wainwright has released 21 studio ... read more

Various Artists - Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 (Music From The HBO Original Series) (album stream)

Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 Music From The HBO Original Series features music from the first two seasons of the show. The Prohibition-era soundtrack, produced by the serie...
Posted 16 September 2011 11.20am — Comment on this

Rufus Wainwright and Loudon Wainwright III – review

Royal Opera House, LondonRufus Wainwright's residency at the Royal Opera House is billed as "five nights of velvet, glamour and guilt". Perhaps the words "post-oedipal me...
Posted 24 July 2011 12.06am — Comment on this

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'I'm hyper light sensitive and sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb'Rufus Wainwright, 37, was born in New York and raised in Montreal. He is the son of the folk singe...
Posted 8 July 2011 10.59pm — Comment on this

Rufus Wainwright teams up with his father, Loudon Wainwright III - video

Watch Rufus Wainwright and his father Loudon Wainwright III as they tackle a cover of Richard Thompson's Down Where The Drunkards Roll togetherguardian.co.uk/music
Posted 29 June 2011 4.10pm — Comment on this

Rufus Wainwright: 'Opera chose me'

Rufus Wainright will be at London's Royal Opera House for the first time to perform with his sister and father. He talks about Verdi, becoming a father and the death of h...
Posted 17 June 2011 11.55pm — Comment on this

Readers recommend: songs about divorce – results

From Caribou to the Who, here are your favourite songs that say it's over, it's over, it's over. Warning: contains country musicBreaking up is hard to do, I noted rather ...
Posted 12 May 2011 4.09pm — Comment on this

Rufus Wainwright and Lorca Cohen announce birth of Viva Katherine

Gay singer has child with Leonard Cohen's daughter, while partner is 'deputy dad' to baby with three parentsDaughter to a talented opera-composing polymath and a videogra...
Posted 21 February 2011 8.16pm — Comment on this

Pass notes No 2,931: Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen

Singer Rufus Wainwright and his partner may be gay but they've just had a baby girl thanks to Leonard Cohen's daughterYes, long live Katherine whoever she is. No, Viva is...
Posted 21 February 2011 8.00pm — Comment on this

friday morning updates continued

Zer0_II said...Sven Libaek - Boney (1972)Sven Libaek - Nickel Queen (1973)http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.comIshkabibliophile said...An Xmas mixtapeA Christmas Due...
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Tonight's TV highlights

Sky 3D | Unreported World | Strictly Come Dancing | The Rob Brydon Show | Songwriters' Circle | DexterSky 3DFrom 7am, Sky 3DAnother milestone in TV tech arrives, as Sky's...
Posted 1 October 2010 8.21am — Comment on this

Folk legend Nic Jones returns to the stage after 28 years

Singer delights fans with surprise appearance at Sidmouth Folk Festival event celebrating his musicAfter an absence of 28 years, one of the great names of British folk mu...
Posted 5 August 2010 6.46pm — Comment on this

Loudon Wainwright III: 10 Songs For The New Depression, CD review

10 Songs For The New Depression is oddly uplifiting. Rating: * * *
Posted 3 August 2010 5.11pm — Comment on this

Loudon Wainwright III: 10 Songs for the New Depression | Folk review

(Proper)It's been 40 years since he recorded his first album, and he's now probably less well known than his children Rufus and Martha, but Loudon Wainwright is still on ...
Posted 15 July 2010 11.16pm — Comment on this

Loudon Wainwright III – “10 Songs for The New Depression”

The old man continues his recent rash of productivity by releasing his new record 10 Songs For The New Depression. If only his offspring were as prolific it’d be g...
Posted 24 June 2010 6.21pm — Comment on this

Taqwacore punks/Wainwright

Southbank Centre, LondonRichard Thompson converted to Islam in the mid-1970s, and the bravest, if not most successful, event of his Meltdown festival was surely this conc...
Posted 22 June 2010 10.40pm — Comment on this

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