Loudon Wainwright III

American singer-songwriter

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  • James Taylor
    In singer-songwriters

    Wainwright, a brilliant comic buffoon, punctured his own and his peers’ self-seriousness in needling, clownish light verse. The genre reached its commercial peak in the mid-1970s with the formal country-pop ballads of John Denver that substituted official good cheer for intimate personal revelation.

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