"Middle Of The Night"
Loudon Wainwright III is best known for doing a few things: being a wry, witty songwriter; being the patriarch of a talented musical family; even for being an actor (he shows up in moves like
Big Fish and TV shows like
Undeclared). Now he can add another title to his resume: bandleader. His latest album,
I'd Rather Lead a Band, is a collection of songs from the early 1900s and it sees him teaming up with Vince Giordano's big band The Nighthawks, and produced by Randall Poster, a music supervisor who has worked on films by Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese. So how did it all come together? How did they choose the songs? Loudon gets into all of that today, as well as some of his newer tunes and his relationship with that musical family of his.