Loudon Wainwright III: 'Recovery'

Working the subgenre he likes to call "Country and Eastern," Westchester native, Peter Stuyvesant descendant and paterfamilias of the Wainwright gang (Rufus, Martha, et al) is in stores today with his new album, "Recovery." Coming off his strangely a propos soundtrack album for Knocked Up, this revisitation of the folkist's four-decade music career has him sounding "better than ever" according to Rolling Stone's Will Hermes, who writes: "You can imagine him singing 'Saw Your Name in the Paper' to his singer-songwriter offspring, Rufus and Martha — a confession about fame's dubious allure that now reads like a paternal warning.  read more »