Loudon Wainwright III

"Dead Skunk" was a cute 1972 novelty hit, but Loudon Wainwright, recording now for 25
years, cuts much deeper than that. Acerbic humor delivered with Buster Keaton-deadpan
irony still forms a basis for his eternal coffee-club act, but the tears of this clown are real --
and conveyed with all the trenchant economy of a short-story master. The soul of Wasp
angst, of quiet bleeding on summer lawns, Wainwright's spare folk laments are a... More >

At its best, why he needs the men's movement; at its worst, why you don't ("Talking New Bob Dylan," "Hitting You")