Morrissey pens essay on Loudon Wainwright III’s debut album: “Sometimes it takes the rest of the world 50 years to catch up – but they do”

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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: “Sometimes it takes the rest of the world fifty years to catch up.

But they do.”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.“Only the best singing voices can become the very sound and image of geographical places,” Morrissey wrote. “In 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.