Loudon Wainwright III

Intro

Loudon’s long and illustrious career is highlighted by more than two dozen album releases, Movie and TV credits, and now his new autobiography, Liner Notes (2017 Penguin/Random House). In 2010 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project. His 2012 recording, Older Than My Old Man Now, was named one of NPR’s Top 10 Albums of the Year. In 2014, Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet), marks his the 26th career release to-date. September 2018, Loudon releases a new retrospective album Story Sounds Records, “Years In The Making,” a double CD with more than 45 tracks – live performances, demos, outtakes, unreleased songs spanning 50 years.

Wainwright is perhaps best known for the novelty song “Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)”, and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding, the “singing surgeon”, on the American television show, M*A*S*H.

His songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, and Mose Allison. He has collaborated with songwriter/producer Joe Henry, on the music for Judd Apatow’s hit movie Knocked Up. Loudon penned music for the British theatrical adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen novel Lucky You. He composed topical songs for NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and ABC’s Nightline, and recorded several songs for the soundtrack of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

As an actor, Wainwright has appeared in films directed by Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow.

Surviving Twin
Loudon’s most recent project is his one-man play entitled “Surviving Twin.” A solo piece many years in the making, is what the singer-songwriter calls a “posthumous collaboration” with his writer father. Part concert, part dramatic reading, part family slide-show. It is a hybrid theatrical form consisting mainly of songs written by Loudon III, along with readings of magazine columns written by his late father, and photographs spanning four generations of the Wainwright clan. The show was developed with the help of director Joseph Haj, at UNC’s Playmakers Rep.

Audio

FORMATS

Standard Performance

Solo acoustic performance featuring Loudon Wainwright III on guitar and vocals (“An Evening with Loudon Wainwright III”).

> An Evening w/
> Festival Headliner

Other Options

> “All In A Family” : special multi-bill package featuring Loudon with guests Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche (by special arrangement)

> “Surviving Twin” : one-man play written and performed by Loudon Wainwright III

ITINERARY

PROMO ASSETS

Documents

Press Release: Liner Notes – autobiography publisher’s notice (rev 4/2017) | PDF
Bio (rev 4/2016) | PDF | DOC
Press/Reviews | PDF

Images

Admats

< Color Poster, 11″ x 17″ || PDF

Media

MP3 Audio:

Haven’t Got The Blues [Yet] (© 2014 429 Records)
> “Man & Dog” | ZIP
> “Harmless” | ZIP

Older Than My Old Man Now (© 2012 429 Records)
> “In C” | ZIP
> “Dateline” | ZIP
> “My Meds” | ZIP

Video:

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Label

429 Records Inc.
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Reviews

The New York Times

"Mr. Wainwright has proved to be far and away the most candid diarist among the singer-songwriters who... brought confessional poetry into popular song... Mr. Wainwright wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation." Read Review

The New Yorker

"As good as he's ever been. Almost forty years into his recording career, he has not only retained his sharpness of wit but has also learned to cut with greater skill." Read Review

CD Review: Rolling Stone

"Folkie great shares wry humor and hard-won wisdom...[he] modernizes blues and Americana." Read Review

Love and death in the great outdoors with Loudon Wainwright III

"...a practiced showman who embellishes his singing with grimaces, wolfish grins and a waggling tongue." Read Review

DCMetroTheaterArts.com Review

"Surviving Twin will have you enjoying Wainwright’s honest and tender storytelling, engaging vocals, and impressive musicianship, while reflecting on your own treasured remembrances or unresolved conflicts with the ghosts that haunt you. I cannot recommend this show highly enough." Read Review

Autobiography Fall 2017

(TITLE: Liner Notes SUBTITLE: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay & a Few of My Other Favorite Things PUB DATE: 5-Sept-2017 Penguin/Random House) “Wainwright writes poignantly about being a son—a status that dominates many of his songs—but also about being a parent, a brother, and a grandfather. His lyrics are featured throughout the book, amplifying his prose and showing the connections between the songs and real life. Wainwright also includes selections from his father’s brilliant Life magazine columns—and, in so doing, re-establishes his father as a major essayist of his era. A funny and insightful meditation on family, inspiration, and art, Liner Notes will thrill fans, readers, and anyone who appreciates the intersection of music and life.” Read More

Loudon Wainwright III