Great dynasties of the world: The Wainwrights

A clan who channel their dysfunction into songThere has perhaps been no family in the history of popular music more vocal about its glorious dysfunction than the Wainwright/McGarrigles. Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, the troubadours of the consanguine.Loudon Wainwright III was a university dropout who started playing on the folk circuit in New York in the late 1960s. He met and married another young folk singer, Kate McGarrigle. Theirs was a tempestuous relationshi...

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