Word: loudon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loudon Wainwright III. This man is considered a comic genius. I have not heard his entire recorded work. On the basis of a song called "Nice Jewish Girls," I will make my judgment. This man is a comic genius. He also sings about illicit assignations, dead skunks and smashed guitars, among other things. He does not make lots of money, but people who've seen him have fun, even though a lot of them think he's pretty warped. But he's not, at least not any more so than Martin Mull. Or Atilla the Hun. --F.V.B...
Album II, Loudon Wainwright III, Atlantic...
Recent albums by three other folk-blues singers, Chris Smither, George Gerdes, and Loudon Wainwright, also bring to public attention exceptional individual talents which have, until now, enjoyed only limited audiences. Chris Smither has often performed in Boston, and, for several reasons, is the most likely of the three to meet wide acceptance...
GEORGE GERDES, a schoolmate and friend of Loudon Wainwright's, has also tried to learn a lot from Bob Dylan, inviting a comparison which is perhaps unfair. He has the same narrow vocal range, which he stretches around the edges. He uses harmonica in the same upbeat, folksy way although he plays both it and guitar much better than Dylan. On the whole, however, Gerdes is less successful, at least on his album Obituary--he is simply not as intense a folk or blues performer...
...most original of the three albums is Loudon Wainwright's Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...