Rufus Wainwright: All Days Are Nights – Songs for Lulu | CD review

(Polydor)Rufus Wainwright recently told the Observer that this record was his "mourning for his mother while she was still alive". As you'd expect from the writer of songs like Dinner At Eight and from a member of a family whose major form of communication seems to be via song, it's intensely personal – especially in the wake of Kate McGarrigle's death. The whole thing is played just on piano, giving the effect of Rufus sat playing in a hotel corner, pouring his heart out to inattentive g...

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