Morrissey pens essay on Loudon Wainwright III's debut album: "Sometimes it takes the rest of the world 50 years to catch up â but they do"
Morrissey has written an essay celebrating the 1970 self-titled debut album by folk singer Loudon Wainwright III.Â
Morrissey has written an essay celebrating the 1970 self-titled debut album by folk singer Loudon Wainwright III.
Writing on his website Morrissey Central, the former Smiths frontman espouses the qualities of the record, writing: âSometimes it takes the rest of the world fifty years to catch up. But they do.â
The album captures the then-23-year-old singer-songwriter in solo acoustic form, having recently relocated to New York City from his native North Carolina and being signed by Atlantic Records.
Since 1970, Wainwright has gone on to record 25 further studio albums in a long and successful career. He also married the folk singer Kate McGarrigle in 1971 and together they had two children who became major music stars in their own right: Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Wainwright and McGarrigle divorced in 1976.
AdvertisementâOnly the best singing voices can become the very sound and image of geographical places,â Morrissey wrote. âIn Delaware when he was younger, Loudon Wainwright imagined his first ever LP, and unzipped it in 1970 to a narrowed public taste that left it chartless forever. On the sleeve he stood with no importance against a brick wall, in the way that classic art avoids fashion. He needed nothing but his solo acoustic and his impressive palette of words.â
âWhoever else was oï¬ering musical dynamics in 1970 did not concern him. The voice was almost hayseed in its yearning, fully in the ânowâ of 1969/70, saying everything whilst looking nothing, and how ridiculous it is to be afraid.â
RecommendedâSinging always with a thread of pity, he is very much a boy new to manhood â longing to love and be loved,â he added. âHe is a greyhound eager to dash, and females shall willingly consent. The libido is restless, and we are meant to laugh even when alone in the dark. The meeting of the sexual zones is the beginning of everything, and, if it isnât, then it doesnât matter because someone else will fall from a tree any second now.â
âHis is the pep and readiness of someone who knows we will all soon be skeletons ⦠so why wait? Irresponsible romance is the ideal way to pass time, especially when you are young and willing to father children and art at precisely the same hour.â
In other Morrissey news, he recently decried how a war on âfree speechâ has prevented him from releasing any new music, seemingly alluding to âBonfire Of The Teenagersâ, an album he recorded in 2021 and which remains unreleased.
In a rare recent interview, he described the album as âthe modern version of âThe Queen Is Deadâ, adding: âThe fact that no label will release it is an indication of how childlike and frightened the music industry has become.â
AdvertisementMorrissey also reportedly fired his management team after Johnny Marr refuted several of Morrisseyâs claims regarding The Smiths. In August, Morrissey had claimed that Marr had âignoredâ a lucrative offer from AEG Entertainment Group to reunite the band. He then alleged that a Smiths âGreatest Hitsâ album had been âblockedâ by the guitarist.
Shortly after, Morrissey claimed that Marr now owns all of the âtrademark rights and Intellectual Propertyâ of The Smiths, and can tour as a band without him.
Later, a representative from the guitaristâs management team called Morrisseyâs comment âincorrectâ in a statement on X. âI didnât ignore the offer â I said no,â Marr wrote in his own message.
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