LISTEN TO IT #49: SIXTY-FOUR IS AWFUL OLD
Jul. 11th, 2012 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogMost people I know are big fans of Rufus Wainwright, but I’ve always been more partial to his dad, Loudon Wainwright III, one of a thousand “New Bob Dylan” artists from the 60s who ended up carving out his own small but successful niche in the folk singer/songwriter sector.
And like a lot of fans, I think LW3 is underrated as a songwriter and probably ought to sell more records than he has. That said, he has a knack for open and therefore brutal emotional honesty about family drama – not in an emo sense, but a way that cuts a little too deep to the bone for a lot of people. It's like listening to a work colleague talk about crazy their personal life is (albeit eloquently).
Luckily, LW3 has always had a sense of humor about it too to take some of the sting out. Even his new album – Older Than My Old Man Now, which reflects on the realization that he’s now lived longer than his father did – manages to find the light side of an otherwise sobering topic.
Here's the title track as proof.
Listen.
If it helps, Rufus also sings on the album. As does Rambling Jack Elliott. And Dame Edna Everidge. In a duet about sex. Oh yes.
From now on it’s all gravy,
This is dF
And like a lot of fans, I think LW3 is underrated as a songwriter and probably ought to sell more records than he has. That said, he has a knack for open and therefore brutal emotional honesty about family drama – not in an emo sense, but a way that cuts a little too deep to the bone for a lot of people. It's like listening to a work colleague talk about crazy their personal life is (albeit eloquently).
Luckily, LW3 has always had a sense of humor about it too to take some of the sting out. Even his new album – Older Than My Old Man Now, which reflects on the realization that he’s now lived longer than his father did – manages to find the light side of an otherwise sobering topic.
Here's the title track as proof.
Listen.
If it helps, Rufus also sings on the album. As does Rambling Jack Elliott. And Dame Edna Everidge. In a duet about sex. Oh yes.
From now on it’s all gravy,
This is dF
