Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama – review

(V2)Martha Wainwright has never shied away from writing songs about the people closest to her. But it's one thing to reflect on adolescent tiffs with your parents, or berate errant lovers; another to address the early death of your mother and the effects on marriage or childbirth. Wainwright's vocals might be dressy but her thoughts are naked, heartbreakingly so on All Your Clothes, a graveside conversation with Kate McGarrigle. Her faithful cover of Proserpina, one of the last songs McGarrigl...

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