Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III is the kind of songwriter I keep coming back to. Twenty-six studio albums is not a discography, it is a diary kept in public, and the fact that a song about a dead skunk could become a hit tells you everything about his gift for finding the comic and the tragic in the same breath. He is an actor too, but for me the real performance is the unguarded honesty of a man, a guitar, and a wry observation. He never traded on flash. His work rewards patience, and I respect a long career built on candor rather than spectacle.

Name (English)

Loudon Wainwright III

Name (Japanese)

ルードン・ウェインライト3世

Reading

るーどん・うぇいんらいと3世

Born

September 5, 1946 (age 79)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / film actor / television actor / guitarist

• Official sitehttps://www.lw3.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudon%20Wainwright%20III
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437752

Tags

• North Carolina
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.