Album · Loudon Wainwright Iii
Album III by Loudon Wainwright Iii
Album III is an album by Loudon Wainwright Iii, released in 1972. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Dead Skunk”, on 1 list with a best position of #767.
Album III, Loudon Wainwright III's third full-length, came out on Columbia in 1972, and it's the one where the wisecracking folkie plugged in. For the first time he had a full band behind him on many of the tracks, a crew called White Cloud, and the extra muscle suits his sly, gallows-flavored wit just fine.
It also handed him "Dead Skunk", the most popular hit he ever had and one of the novelty numbers scattered across his career. The song has trailed him ever since, to the point that he was still needling himself about it on 1985's I'm Alright. Wainwright would eventually trade the band for spare acoustic records from the early '80s on, which makes this plugged-in outing all the more of a curio.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Album III on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead Skunk | 1 | #767 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.