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Loudon Wainwright III
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Loudon Wainwright III with special guest Tony Furtado
“I had a very romantic idea when I began that I would be dead by the time I was 25,” he admits with a smile. “Just because that sounded so cool and groovy and dangerous. I’m happy it didn’t work out that way. When I think that I've been doing this for half a century, it’s kind of incredible. The place I played at last night, I played fifty years ago. It's encouraging funnily – that it's gone on this long, and it's still a lot of fun. The performing part of it, and the mysterious thing of getting to write a new song. After the doldrums of the past two years, I had a creative burst in the last year, and that felt good. It was something to build a record on.”
With a full tour itinerary for 2022 already in place, Loudon is looking forward to taking the new songs onto the stage. Looking back on a legacy the New York Times calls “rich, complicated and often surprisingly dark,” he says,
Portland-based Americana treasure Tony Furtado opens the show. Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef. All of the music of America is in Tony’s music.