The early 1970s were the era of the singer-songwriter, and these five songs were among the very best the decade had to offer.

Such is the case of Loudon Wainwright III, a ridiculously talented singer/songwriter with wonderful songs and albums galore. His lone pop hit: “Dead Skunk”, a song that pretty much gives away ...

The Canadian musician’s new album, “Dream Requiem,” is interwoven with Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness.” It’s partly inspired by ...

I don’t know. We’ve got to raise the bar here.” Born in New York to folk artists Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, he achieved critical acclaim with his second album, poses ...

Best known would be Loudon Wainwright III, a singer-songwriter whose music ranges from wry to intimate and who is now in his seventh decade of entertaining audiences. Two members of the Rochester ...

They were really from that folk-rock tradition,” said Wainwright, the son of Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, as recalled the fateful afternoon that his mother introduced him ...

“How old is 75?” Loudon Wainwright III asks near the end of his new album, Lifetime Achievement. There’s a rickety banjo strumming in the background as he answers his own rhetorical ...

Margo Price, Iron & Wine and Watchhouse are among the over 30 artists performing at SPACE’s second annual Evanston Folk ...

Despite the odd outlier – Loudon Wainwright III’s 1975 track about his son, Rufus Is A Tit Man, springs to mind – the majority of songs gravitate towards the sentimental, from Stevie Wonder ...

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