Loudon Wainwright III - Lifetime Achievement

Release 19th August 2022.

Loudon Wainwright IIIhas announced his new albumLifetime Achievement, is to be released August 19. His first album of new original songs since 2014's Haven't Got The Blues Yet, Lifetime Achievement finds LWIII in a state of deep reflection at age 75, over a set of 15 recently written, insightful and incisive gems that he wasn't even planning to pen.

Says Wainwright,"I remember when I made my first record for Atlantic in 1969. I was always saying, 'I want it to be a record not only a recording, but a document that captures a moment.' I was 21 and very serious, and I thought I'd be dead in four years (laughs). So I wanted to make something that would last. A testament. Now, fifty years later, I guess I still want to make a testament. I want to write a group of songs and get them down in the best possible way. And I like to think they might last a w