Loudon Snowden Wainwright III was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Martha Taylor, a yoga teacher, and Loudon ...

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.

Loudon Wainwright III has done much in his storied career — played to packed houses, released over 20 albums, won a Grammy, dipped his toe into acting, and helmed a distinguished family of artists.

Before he sired Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III was best known as a prolific folk singer with a sense of humor (in 1972’s “Motel Blues” he implored, “I’ll write a song for you, I’ll ...

Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III released his self-titled debut album in 1970 and had the only hit single of his career in 1972 with “Dead Skunk,” which hit No. 16, but while he hasn’t had any ...

Loudon Wainwright III, like his good friend and sometime producer/accompanist Richard Thompson, is a songwriter who has only gotten better as he’s aged. His albums from the ’80s, driven by ...

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.

Our second installation today of songs of Thanksgiving. This one, “Thanksgiving,” written by Loudon Wainwright III, is not really a happy Thanksgiving song. Not at all. And not a surprise coming from ...

Each day on Loudon Wainwright III’s front yard, squirrels attack Donald Trump. Well, not exactly: Dangling by string from a tree on his front yard on the eastern tip of Long Island is a Trump squirrel ...

The old “New Bob Dylan” puts his life in order on a deeply personal, comfortably cluttered studio set and new Netflix special. Sex and death figure prominently in Loudon Wainwright III’s 28-album ...

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 ...