The Hi everyone and welcome to Soda Jaker on songwriting. We trust you're all in fine fettle. We certainly are and

that's due in no small part to our guest for today's show. Yeah I think the word veteran

has cropped up quite a few times in the podcast over the last couple of years and in

the absence of a rogeous theaurus I'm about to use it again

for joining us today is a veteran Grammy-winning folk musician and singer-songwriter and

sometime actor whose career spans well over four decades and staggering 26 albums.

26 albums?

That's right, the 26th of which haven't got the blues yet is set for release in September.

He's also the Pater Familius of the celebrated Wainwright-Garragull

Music Dynasty. It's the wonderful Lardin Wainwright III. Peter Familius. Kudos.

Prize bringing in the Latin today folks.

Quintus Est in Horto, Frey.

Kailius S. Triclinio.

I knew that Jesusi will come in handy one day.

Also, I felt the need to compensate for the overuse of

veteran. Well you've done that. Thank you. We'll be hearing from Loud and presently but just before that we'd

like to tell you a bit more about him. He was born in 1946 in North Carolina but raised in upstate New York.

He briefly studied drama before turning to music in the late 60s, writing songs and playing

folk clubs in Boston and New York City. Before long he was being fated in industry circles as one of several

new Bob Dylan's and signed to Atlantic Records in 1969, barely a year after writing his first songs.

He released his debut album entitled

simply Album 1 in 1970 which was followed a year later by you guessed it

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