Loudon Wainwright III, who is currently on tour, began his career as a singer-songwriter quickly, almost fifty-years ago, with help from a motorcycle accident. Not his own, but the one that left the ...

Loudon Wainwright III is letting me in on the realities of life at 75. “Just the other night I was moaning and groaning about my orthopaedic problems, my bad back and my hip which is probably going to ...

Folk singer Loudon Wainwright III has just released his 22nd studio album, called Haven't Got the Blues (Yet). We've invited him to answer three questions about other notable thirds: King Richard III, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix categorizes Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin as a stand-up comedy special. Which just goes to show how much our definition of stand-up has expanded in 2018.

If I remain still, if I am alone and silent long enough to hear the sound of my own blood or breathing or digestion above the rustling of leaves or the whir of the refrigerator, my father is likely to ...

Wainwright's music centers on family, and how we hurt and heal each other. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1992 and '17 about his life as a husband,... Loudon Wainwright III Opens Up About The 'Exes & Excess ...

Loudon Wainwright III's kids — singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha — get bunches of attention these days. But the 59-year-old Wainwright, a cult favorite for the better part of four decades, has just ...

As Loudon Wainwright III says in his song "In C," he likes to sing about "my favorite protagonist — me." Over the years, Wainwright has written about being a husband, a father and a son; an adulterer, ...

Loudon Wainwright III grew up with a famous father and when he became a dad himself, watched his own children achieve great success. As it turns out, getting caught in the middle generation has made ...

Lots of artists get entombed in box-set career retrospectives. Few lend themselves to the process as appropriately as Loudon Wainwright III does on 40 Odd Years, because his entire body of work — with ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Sam Briger, sitting in for Terry Gross. Loudon Wainwright is best known for his confessional songs about family dysfunction and satirical songs about politics and other issues.

Loudon Wainwright III grew up in the town of Bedford in wealthy Westchester County north of New York City, the son of Loudon S. Wainwright, Jr., a writer and editor at Life magazine and a direct ...