Clever craftsmen: Loudon Wainwright III and Punch Brothers at Birmingham's ... al.com BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Who: Loudon Wainwright III, a smart and cynical folk singer-songwriter, on a double bill with Punch Brothers, a brainy and experimental bluegrass quintet. Neither of these acts will give listeners the warm fuzzies, ...
La MaMa Will Revive Hot Lunch Apostles With Loudon Wainwright III and Jack ... Playbill.com By Adam Hetrick Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and the Talking Band's Jack Wetherall will appear in a revival of Sidney Goldfarb's Hot Lunch Apostles, the 1983 play in which carnival strippers take on the bible, at La MaMa etc ...
Wainwright siblings partner up at Pappy & Harriets Los Angeles Times But the two siblings and children of Loudon Wainwright III team up for a night that showcases their camaraderie in an intimate setting. Pappy & Harriets, 53688 Pioneertown Road, Pioneertown. 7 pm Fri. http://www.ticketweb.com.
Listen to Loudon Wainwright III's New Song, 'Over the Hill' The Atlantic By Spencer Kornhaber Loudon Wainwright III is feeling his age. It's right there in the title for 65-year-old folk legend's forthcoming album, Older Than My Old Man Now. It's also there in the words to his new song, "Over the Hill," which The Atlantic ...
Rufus rocks the opera New York Post While he speaks French — he was raised in Montreal after his mother, Kate McGarrigle, and father, Loudon Wainwright III, divorced — his fluency in Italian was lacking. “I didn't understand much of the [Italian] in Verdi, but not understanding added ...
Petroleum demand 'stinks' MarketWatch (blog) “Petroleum demand stinks, or as [singer] Loudon Wainwright III might say, it 'stinks to high heaven' with no signs of an imminent shift,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in comments following the EIA data.
WQXR Welcomes Singer-Songwriter Rufus Wainwright 2/12 Broadway World With musical influences ranging from Verdi operas and Schubert lieder to Edith Piaf and his own parents (folksingers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III), Rufus Wainwright has carved out a distinctive niche in the musical world.
A Grammy for Eddie Vedder, Folksinger? Forbes Dave Alvin, T. Bone Burnett, Loudon Wainwright III, and Levon Helm. One of the ironies is that these rootsy rockers are also among America's greatest songwriters. And yet some of them snagged their Grammies for collections of cover songs, ranging from ...
Craig Finn and Mount Moriah at Off Broadway, 2/10/12: Review and Setlist Riverfront Times (blog) Finn is probably the funniest serious American songwriter this side of John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III, especially on "Balcony," the best cut on Clear Heart Full Eyes, a song for all the dudes at the party who come back from the 7-11 to find their ...