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Loudon Wainwright III

real name Loudon Snowden Wainwright III

Chapel Hill, United States · b. 1946-09-05

Loudon Wainwright III is credited on 555 releases across 168 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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555

Credits

168

Albums

6

Decades active

154

In collections

Biography

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Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist and actor. He was married to Canadian singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle with whom he had two children, Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright. He also has a daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche with the singer Suzzy Roche. He is the son of and brother of and Sloan Wainwright.

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Credited work

555 releases · 168 albums · active 1970–2026

  • Performance · 921
  • Production · 103
  • Other credits · 70
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: A&R Studios · Quadrafonic Sound Studios · Ray Stevens Sound Laboratory · Olympic Studios

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