Artist: Loudon Wainwright III
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Pop
Folk
Country
Discography:
Strange Weirdos: Music from and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
So Damn Happy
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
The BBC Sessions
Year: 1998
Tracks: 21
Attempted Mustache
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Grown Man
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15
Career Moves
Year: 1993
Tracks: 24
History
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
More Love Songs
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
Loudon Wainwright III grew up in the town of Bedford in moneyed Westchester County north of New York City, the logos of Loudon S. Wainwright, Jr., a writer and editor program at Life magazine and a take descendant of colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant. Wainwright became a folk singer/songwriter in the late '60s, singing humourous and nakedly honest autobiographical songs. Signed to Atlantic Records, he recorded Album I (1970) and Album II (1971), resultant himself on acoustic guitar, before switch to Columbia Records, for which he made the folk-rock Album III (1972), which featured the Top 40 fallal strike "Bushed Skunk." Attempted Mustache (1973) and the half-live Unrequited (1975) did not extend that commercial success, though Wainwright's humor and engaging stagecoach image made him a cult figure and a concert favorite. Meanwhile, his songs were recorded by others, notably Kate (his wife, since divorced) and Anna McGarrigle, and Wainwright appeared in the off-Broadway show Pump Boys and Dinettes and played a featured part on the successful M*A*S*H television series. He stirred to Arista Records for T Shirt (1976) and Last Exam (1978), on which he was backed by a rock-and-roll stria, simply asleep the major labels for a more seize nursing home on the folk-based indie Rounder for A Live One (1980) and Fame and Wealth (1983). Wainwright began to gain more notice in England than in the U.S., and he stirred to London in 1985. I'm Alright (1985) and More Love Songs (1986) were co-produced by British singer/guitarist Richard Thompson. Therapy (1989) establish Wainwright on the major-label-distributed Silvertone imprint and back living in the U.S., and he signed to Virgin Records' Charisma subsidiary company for History (1992) and the hot Life history Moves (1993). Full-grown Man, his fifteenth album, was released in 1995, followed tercet years subsequently by Little Ship. In 1999, in that location appeared a collection of topical, humourous songs Wainwright had been composing since the late '80s for National Public Radio, titled Social Studies; the following class, The BBC Sessions poised favorites and raw compositions. The Last Man on Earth followed in 2001, and the live album So Damn Happy marked his debut for Sanctuary in 2003. Another studio album, Here Come the Choppers, was released in 2005. It was followed by Strange Weirdos: Music from and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up in 2007.
