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Loudon Wainwright III: Album III (CBS)

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 13 January 1973

YOU'LL PROBABLY never meet anyone less like a star than Loudon Wainwright III. G.I.-short hair with the stubble of his next beard, scruffy clothes that look as if he's just hitched all the way from Glasgow in the back of a poultry truck, scuffed shoes — a long way from glam-rock indeed.

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