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Loudon Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor.
Biography
Wainwright has also appeared in a number of films, including small parts in The Aviator, Big Fish, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and the television series Undeclared. Wainwright came to the attention of many people in Britain for the first time when he appeared as the resident singer with comedian Jasper Carrott in his UK show, Carrott Confidential, in the late 1980s, and he has remained popular in the UK ever since. Wainwright's career began in the late 1960s. He had played the guitar while in school, but would later sell it for yoga lessons while living in San Francisco. Later, in Rhode Island, Wainwright's grandmother got him a job working in a boatyard. He was inspired by an old lobster fisherman named Edgar to borrow a friend's guitar and write his first song (entitled "Edgar"). Soon after, Wainwright bought a guitar and in about a year, he had written near twenty songs. He decided to go to Boston and New York and began playing live shows in folk clubs. He was eventually "discovered" by a man named Milton Kramer who became his manager. He acquired a record deal with Atlantic Records who released his first album in 1970. Wainwright has claimed that, like many of his contemporaries, he was inspired musically by seeing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1962. He was one of many young folksingers tagged as the "new Dylan" in the early 1970s, a fact that he later ruefully satirized in his song 'Talking New Bob Dylan' from 1992's History album.
Wainwright's son Rufus Wainwright and daughter Martha Wainwright by his onetime marriage to Canadian singer/songwriter Kate McGarrigle are both singer/songwriters as well. Rufus was the subject of two of Loudon's more famous songs, the breastfeeding ode "Rufus Is a Tit Man" and the retrospective "A Father and a Son", while Martha entered the world to "Pretty Little Martha", turned five to the post-divorce child-rearing anthem "Five Years Old" and entered her teenage years with the brutally clinical "Hitting You". (Rufus, in turn, has covered his father's "One Man Guy" and wrote "Dinner at Eight" about a family dispute, while Martha has covered her father's "Pretty Good Day" and wryly states that her song "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole" is about her father.[1]) Loudon also has a daughter, Lucy Roche by the singer Suzzy Roche, and a third daughter, Lexie Kelly. Loudon remarried in 2005. He is one of the inspirations for Doonesbury minor character Jimmy Thudpucker. In September of 2006, Loudon and musician Joe Henry began composing the music to the upcoming Judd Apatow film Knocked Up. DiscographyStudio and Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Contributions
Selected actor filmography
References
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