Loudon Wainwright III: Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited auf 2 CDs

Loudon Wainwright III
Album III / Attempted Mustache / Unrequited

The name trips off the tongue so easily that it s almost comfortable to forget what Loudon Wainwright III has achieved in a career that began over 40 years ago. He is one of America’s truly great singer-songwriters.

A man known for his humour and also for his acting ability. Quite a varied degree of talents all wrapped up in one man. His father, Loudon Wainwright Jr., was a columnist for Life magazine. His sister, Sloan Wainwright is also a singer, while his children Rufus and Martha are both established singer / songwriters. Their mother’s the late and well respected musician Kate McGarrigle.

The three albums you have here were recorded over a three-year period between 1972 and 1975, and whilst they form the bulk of Wainwright s rockier sounding albums they also represent a period where Wainwright also experienced the very height of his popularity.

Wainwright appeared in three legendary episodes of the long-running US Military comedy M*A*S*H, taking on the role of the singing surgeon Captain Calvin Spalding, and has continued acting, appearing in such films as The 40-Year Old Virgin, Big Fish, Knocked Up and The Aviator, and his residency as singer on Jasper Carrot s 1980 seriesCarrot Confidential went a longway to establishing Wainwright in the UK.

Still recording, acting and entertaining to this day, Wainwright s is one of those rare things, a talent who has endured for over four decades now because of their cult appeal. And as these three records prove, it wasn’t just a new generation of Wainwright performers that he s offered to the music world!

(cherryred. co. uk)