At 77, singer-songwriter and sometimes-actor Loudon Wainwright III is still hitting the road, including for a pair of upcoming dates at Eddies’s Attic in Decatur. Since his 1970 debut album, simply ...

Loudon Wainwright III is nearing the 40 year mark in his career, and with the new album 'Recovery' he's revisiting and reworking some of the songs that got him started. The record also reunites the ...

The singer-songwriter is known for his intensely autobiographical writing. When Wainwright turned 75 recently, he decided to make an album about... Loudon Wainwright III goes back to the basics on ...

Loudon Wainwright III lives up to his rep as the kind of guy who basks in Los Angeles' sporadic grayness. Asked how he's doing, he responds perkily, "Pretty good today. So far, nothing bad has ...

It appears the genesis for I’d Rather Lead a Band was the participants’ shared work on the music for Boardwalk Empire, set in 1920s Atlantic City. The songs – which, says Wainwright, “reflect on my ...

“I remember the first record I bought, but it was a 45. It was Elvis’ ‘All Shook Up.’ “As far as albums go, it might have been an Elvis Presley record, too, a 33 1/3 album, but the rest is more or ...

Folk: At the end of the '60s, folk singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III arrived on the scene following the success of artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He's ...

For his latest movie, Loudon Wainwright III learned the script in a whole new way, because this time he was also writing the soundtrack. The result is the album 'Strange Weirdos: Music from and ...