Loudon Wainwright III is coming to the Plaza Theatre on Bumby Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 8:30pm. I'm more familiar with his son, but I've heard the father on NPR now and then. Reviews:
..one of America's most astute lyrical commentators...lyrically compelling and emotionally overpowering.
-MOJO Magazine
Loudon Wainwright III makes albums about his most personal experiences, and almost nothing is considered too intimate. Honesty with Wainwright seems to be a compulsion. Yet there are at least two Loudon Wainwrights. If one is the unflinchingly naked autobiographical writer, the other is the comic, red-nosed performer...
-The London Times, Nigel Williamson
Mr. Wainwright has proved to be far and away the most candid diarist among the singer-songwriters who, inspired by Bob Dylan, brought confessional poetry into popular song. While others translated their own experiences into baby-boom position papers, Mr. Wainwright delighted in pulling the rug out from under his own pretensions and sticking his tongue out at his audience and at himself. Through it all, Mr. Wainwright has never curbed his ruthless self-honesty...Mr. Wainwright wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation.
-New York Times, Stephen Holden