Loudon Wainwright III
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Emerging from a North Carolina birth and a childhood in Bedford, New York, he briefly studied acting at Carnegie Mellon before joining the 1960s folk scene. Writing his first songs in Cambridge in 1968, he secured a contract with Atlantic Records and released a self-titled debut in 1970, soon gaining notoriety for the novelty hit “Dead Skunk” and for portraying the singing surgeon Captain Calvin S…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
