The album is called Recovery, explains Loudon Wainwright the Third, because re-recording songs he wrote back in the early 1970s feels like an archaeological dig – “unearthing dinosaur bones ...
Loudon constantly aims for the funny bone ... Richard Thompson’s “Down Where The Drunkards Roll”), although Wainwright has always been the most idiosyncratic of folk figureheads.
He played on the main stage by himself for the first time, following in the footsteps of father Loudon Wainwright III and sister Martha Wainwright. He said: "I have a lot of early memories of ...