![]() chargeable and any additional charges payable by a defaulting buyer under these Conditions. (e) "Total Amount Due" means the hammer price in respect of the lot sold together with any premium, V.A.T. (d) "Terms of Consignment" means the stipulated terms and rates of commission on which The Canterbury Auction Galleries accept instructions from vendors or their agents. (c) "Hammer Price" means the level of bidding reached (at or above any reserve) when the auctioneer brings down the hammer. (b) "Deliberate Forgery" means an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source but which is unequivocally described in the catalogue as being a work of a particularĬreator, and which at the date of sale has a material value less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with the description. (a) "Auctioneer" means the firm of The Canterbury Auction Galleries or its authorised auctioneer, as appropriate. Anthony Pratt Fine Arts Limited Trading As The Canterbury Auction Galleries carries on business with bidders, buyers and all those present in the Auction Galleries prior or in connection with an auction on the following General Conditions, and on such other terms, conditions and notices as may be referred to herein. His books include Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, and Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters. Jeff Burger’s website,, contains more than four decades’ worth of music reviews and commentary. If you’re new to his world, though, you really ought to start at the beginning with this superlative twofer. In the more than half a century since he created such numbers, Wainwright has issued well over two dozen additional albums. “Do the monkey, do the pony, do the slop, do the boogaloo twist / Cut your throat, cut your throat, cut your wrist,” he sings before concluding: “When you get hung up, hang yourself up by the neck / What the hell, what the hell, what the heck.” And in “I Know I’m Unhappy / Suicide Song / Glenville Reel,” he demonstrates that he can craft humor even from a tale about taking one’s own life. ![]() On Songs like “Plane, Too,” in which he names everything he saw on the airliner he was flying on, Wainwright proves he can write a good song about virtually anything. More often than not, though, Wainwright will make you smile with his wry and often sarcastic humor, such as in “Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House” and “Motel Blues,” which includes lines like “Chronologically I know you’re young / But when you kissed me in the club you bit my tongue.” Then there’s “The Drinking Song,” where Wainwright proclaims, “Drunk men stagger, drunk men fall / Drunk men swear and that’s not all / Quite often they will urinate outdoors.” Sometimes he’s dead serious, such as in the deftly written “School Days,” which opens the first LP with the lines “In Delaware when I was younger / I would live the life obscene / In the spring I had great hunger, I was Brando, I was Dean.” There’s also “Hospital Lady,” which mingles images of a young girl with lines about the old dying lady she has become. His frequently autobiographical music is a whole lot more imaginative than the titles of his early albums. (The disc also includes a bonus track, “The Drinking Song,” a different version of which shows up on 1972’s Album III, which also featured Wainwright’s sole hit single, “Dead Skunk.”) If you missed them when they first appeared in 19, the good news is that they’ve been reissued on a single CD. Loudon’s own large talent was immediately obvious on his eponymous debut and its follow-up, Album II. Oh, one more thing: like ol’ man Zimmerman, who fathered the Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan, Wainwright has parented talented next-generation musicians: with singer Kate McGarrigle, he fathered Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and with singer Suze Roche, he parented Lucy Wainwright Roche. Like most of the so-called new Dylans who emerged in the 1970s, folk singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III has little in common with Bob aside from an ability to write lyrics worth hearing and produce music that isn’t quite like anyone else’s.
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