LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
Jul 21, 2022
3 minutes
By Stephen Deusner
Lifetime Achievement STORYSOUND
8/10
” Loudon Wainwright III asks near the end of his new album, . There’s a rickety banjo strumming in the background as he answers his own rhetorical question: “”. It lands like a punchline, but Wainwright tempers that levity with an almost unbearable gravity. On the verses to “How Old Is 75?” he notes that he’s already outlived his mother by one year and Loudon II by 13. What does that signify? Nothing really. It’s just the math of”, he sings over strings that quiver and quake.
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