He’s 22 albums in, but Loudon Wainwright III is more known nowadays as Rufus’n’Martha’s sire than he is celebrated on his own terms. Still, as putting-that-right statements go, this is an astonishing affair; ‘The Here And The Now’ makes a perfect opening pitch for his own biopic, and copious candid personal insights are shared with the gravitas of Johnny Cash over a bit of blues here, a fleck of folk there, and country stylings aplenty. And hey, who could resist a duet with Dame Edna called ‘I Remember Sex’? ‘Older Than My Old Man Now’ is something of a coming-of-age…

Iain Moffat