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LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III arrives on stage with only a guitar, a banjo and a creaking microphone stand. “Sounds like me in the mornings,” he jests.
The father of the talented Rufus and Martha, he proves to be as much comedian and raconteur as musician.
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