7 Loudon Wainwright III

Older Than My Old Man Now

2ND STORY SOUND/PROPER 2012, FROM £6.99 You Say: “Gourmand rumination on things we prefer not to think about.” Steve Williams, via e-mail Produced by Dick Connette, who’d previously collaborated on the Grammy-winning High Wide & Handsome, Older Than… has a warm, intimate old-timey country style, and some lovely duet work with Chris Smither and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and harmonising members of the Wainwright brood, that disguises the bleakness of the subject: a 65-year-old Loudon communes with the ghost of his dead father and looks back on the mess of his life, the death of his ex-wife Kate, and his own failing health. In this profound, brooding mix, only LW would duet with Dame Edna Everage on I Remember Sex.