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...promises some fine music at relatively reasonable prices. Raitt is playing two shows each night through Sunday, offering her usual skillful guitar playing, one of the best white blues and folk voices around, and a repertoire of songs ranging from the hard-assed to the poignant. After Christmas, Loudon Wainwright III, a powerful and unusually inventive singer and songwriter, will take over through New Year...
...Mary's mother, Myrna Loy, 68, seemed apprehensive in her entrances and exits and confined her delivery to flat recitation. Also making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49, seemed to be posing for a camera rather than playing to an audience. Of the stage veterans, Dorothy Loudon and Mary Louise Wilson are tartly expert comediennes, and Jan Miner is wonderfully hilarious as a countess addicted to husbands (five) and alcohol (90-proof...
...Loudon Wainwright III. This man is considered a comic genius. I have not heard his entire recorded work. On the basis of a song called "Nice Jewish Girls," I will make my judgment. This man is a comic genius. He also sings about illicit assignations, dead skunks and smashed guitars, among other things. He does not make lots of money, but people who've seen him have fun, even though a lot of them think he's pretty warped. But he's not, at least not any more so than Martin Mull. Or Atilla the Hun. --F.V.B...
...Loudon Wainwright III. Sat., Mar. 17, Jordan Hall. Tickets...
...most original of the three albums is Loudon Wainwright's Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...