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Vicious World Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
September 8, 2011

Who is Vicious World and what are they doing messing around with Rufus Wain- wright? Vicious World Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (Spinaround SRCD001) is an 11-tune disk played by an unusually instrumented ensemble. Vicious World is the brainchild of reedist Aaron Irwin and Matthew McDonald, trombonist. They are joined by guitarist Sebastian Noelle (who cranks out some solo gems when called upon), plus contrabass, drums, violin and cello. The sonarity of the combined forces is a big factor ...
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Vicious World - Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (2011)

Source: Something Else!
June 22, 2011

Originally named for a Rufus Wainwright song, it was perhaps inevitable that Vicious World would eventually devote an entire album to this underrated contemporary singer-songwriter. That doesn't make the prospect any less daunting, considering the sharp turns and blind alleys associated with Wainwright's deeply idiosyncratic style. But Vicious World, a septet co-led by saxophonist Aaron Irwin and trombonist Matthew McDonald, matches the music's mysterious melodicism with an expanded lineup that also includes lush textures from violinist Eliza Cho and cellist ...
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Loudon Wainwright III: Five-Disc Box Set

Source: JamBase
February 19, 2011

SHOUT! FACTORY TO CELEBRATE LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III WITH CAREER-SPANNING BOX SET 40 ODD YEARS OUT MAY 3 40 Odd Years into an exceptionally prolific and storied career, Loudon Wainwright III is being celebrated with an aptly named career-spanning 4-CD/1-DVD box set, including a 40-page book, with an essay by renowned journalist/author David Wild and an introduction by filmmaker and box set co-producer Judd Apatow, to be released by Shout! Factory on May 3, 2011. The first 200 to pre-order from ...
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Loudon Wainwright at Largo at the Coronet

Source: Michael Ricci
February 10, 2010

The folksy, Grammy-winning musician sings about optimism in the face of bad times.

Loudon Wainwright III was fighting a losing battle with his guitar Tuesday night at Largo at the Coronet: He wanted it to stay in tune, the guitar didn't. So roughly an hour into his show the L.A.-based folkie hatched the kind of plan that comes naturally to someone with Wainwright's experience. “I'm gonna do a blues now," he announced. “That way it don't matter." That his plan ...
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Loudon Wainwright III Tour

Source: JamBase
January 11, 2010

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME: THE CHARLIE POOLE PROJECT

Loudon Wainwright III Fresh from his Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy nomination for High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound Records), Loudon Wainwright III will tour throughout 2010 to support the highly acclaimed two-CD package.

On the lavishly packaged set, Wainwright performs the beguiling ballads, blues and novelty songs of country pioneer Poole, as well as nine new ...
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Rufus Wainwright Creates His Own Oz

Source: Michael Ricci
September 20, 2009

The devoted fan dressed up as Judy Garland during a 2007 concert that has been turned into a CD and DVD, 'Milwaukee at Last!'

Martin Scorsese once called Rufus Wainwright a “one-man Greek chorus." The hyperliterate singer-songwriter is the son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, a devoted fan of Judy Garland and recently an opera composer. (His first, the French-language “Prima Donna," premiered this summer.) His next release is a live album, “Milwaukee at Last!!!," which ...
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Loudon Wainwright III Music a Family Affair

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

Music a family affair for Loudon Wainwright III Why wouldnt you write about them? he says of writing songs about family

Loudon Wainwright III latest album Recovery. “Its a play on words about recovering a song," says Wainwright. “I had been performing some of the songs, but some of them I had forgotten about and had to relearn."

Access spoke to Super Bowl musical performers including Bruce Springsteen and Faith Hill about the upcoming big day, and Hill ...
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Loudon Wainwright III Covers Himself

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

Here's an old song by this kid I used to know

Even when Loudon Wainwright III was writing songs in his early 20s, many of his characters were already looking back wistfully at their younger days -- such as the protagonist of his 1970 recording “School Days," who begins his tale. In Delaware when I was younger. They're songs written by a young man and originally recorded when he was a young man. But now, tragically, I'm not a young ...
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Jon Regen's Let It Go Available Now - Featuring Andy Summers of the Police, Martha Wainwright, & Other Special Guests!

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2007

Jon Regen's long-awaited new album LET IT GO is availble online now. Produced by BRAD ALBETTA (Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Sean Lennon), and Mixed by legendary producer JOHN PORTER, (Roxy Music, BB King, Ryan Adams), LET IT GO features appearances by some of today's most innovative artists, including guitarist Andy Summers, singers Martha Wainwright and Kami Thompson, drummer Matt Johnson, cellist Julia Kent, and guitarist Jimmy Vivino. LET IT GO is available online now, and will be released on CD ...
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