Loudon Wainwright III

I mean, I was very influenced by musicians.

You know, Loudon Wainwright was somebody that I really looked up to 'cause his songs were funny, you know, and dramatic.

Uh, and also there was a feeling in our house that our, that my grandfather was just a very cool guy, you know, that he was doing Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker, you know, people like that, and that he had carved his own path, you know, that in the beginning of the creation of the music business.

He would, with his own money, hire people like Charlie Parker and just give them money to go in a recording studio and record a song, and then he would print it and go to the record stores and sell it, like, individually, and that's how he got in the business.

Nicholls.

So 1995, there was an album by Loudon Wainwright III called Grown Man.

And if you don't know him, he's Rufus Wainwright's father.

He's also a very prolific songwriter.

Yeah, look, there's a fairly blurred line.

Look, do the Eagles belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Loudon Wainwright? Warren Zevon, for that matter.

He definitely does.

Yes, well, he's definitely in it.

Everybody's felt like that once or twice, I think.

And before that, Loudon Wainwright III with A.M. World off Attempted Mustache.

What a great name for a record.

He's coming in February and playing at the Hollywood Avondale.

He steps in to perform, uh, a rendition of a song.

And we get a more of a classic singer-songwriter from the past with someone like Loudon Wainwright III, a really well-known folk singer.

If anyone's a Rufus Wainwright fan out there, this is his dad, uh, and his predecessor.

So yes, a really cool creative outlet that I think Beck really enjoyed.

So here are the two quotes.

But I think once you start looking for them, you find them His first one is from the folk singer Loudon Wainwright III, from his song Last Man on Earth.

Quote, we learn to live together and then we die alone.

All right, we die alone.

He's my favorite out of all of them.

Maury Povich, Loudon Wainwright, Montel, Ricky Lake.

Colorado Mike Douglas.

Oh, Mike Douglas.

No, You're the One by Buddy Holly.

And then probably, I don't know what I would have played, but maybe a Loudon Wainwright song, maybe a...

Bob Dylan, so I can't remember.

But anyway, so I did three songs.

You should watch this video." And I'd tr- oh, wait, I forgot.

There's a great song by, um, oh, Loudon Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, about when his father died-

Oh

... that will break your heart.

Is it something like just, is it Cats in the Cradle and the Silver Spoon? Are we talking about that kind of tear-jerking?

No, it's full on.

Loudon Wainwright, song about death.

I mean-