Incoming: New Loudon Wainwright III

Album arrives April 17.

By Blurt Staff

Older Than My Old Man Is Now is the prophecy-fulfilling title of the upcoming album from veteran troubadour Loudon Wainwright III. It's due April 17 from 2^nd Story Sound Records and is the followup to 2010's 10 Songs For the New Depression as well as last year's career-spanning box 40 Odd Years.

Of that collection, BLURT reviewer Steven Rosen noted, "The singer-songwriters who came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s are the Boomers' major contribution to the Great American Songbook, and Loudon Wainwright III ranks with the very best. How many have spent so long displaying the guts Wainwright has shown in turning his family and professional life - its failures and triumphs - into material for public consumption? And how many have the talent to make such consistent, enduring art out of that material?"

The new album finds the legendary Grammy-winning songwriter, now 65 years old, reflecting on the fact that he's older than his father ever was, featuring contributions from all four of his children - Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Lexie Kelly Wainwright - as well as two of their three mothers, Suzzy Roche and Ritamarie Kelly. 

While his musical career is well known, it's less common knowledge that Loudon is also an accomplished comedic actor, including parts in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and on M*A*S*H, as well as recent cameos in Undeclared and Parks and Recreation.