Live At Carnegie Hall - Rufus Wainwright

Want One - Rufus Wainwright

Want One is the third album release from Rufus Wainwright and it was my first introduction to him back in 2005. I had actually been given a free concert to see him so bought the album so I knew what I would be singing along too! As it turned out, it wasn t really a sing along concert! Rufus Wainwright is the son of Loudon Wainwright III, a famous American songwriter, folk singer, humorist (he was the resident singer with Jasper Carrot in the 1980 s show, Carrot Confidential) and actor (he played Captain Spalding in M*A*S*H). Rufus sister, Martha, is also a singer/songwriter as is his mother, Kate Garrigle, so there is a clear love of music in the family! Rufus has a ...

Poses - Rufus Wainwright

more than they add, but as the song goes on it develops further and the additional orchestration starts to flourish and come into its own. To conclude, Poses is a fantastic second album, but it is slightly inferior to Rufus Wainwright s self-titled debut. I realise that I had nary a bad word to say about it in my review, but this was because I wanted to concentrate on the album s numerous highlights, rather than the few lowlights which bring it down a couple of points. So, is Poses essential listening? I d say so, yes. 8/10 Daniel Kemp Read more reviews at ...

Poses - Rufus Wainwright

heard of him? But then is popularity a measure of how many people like you, or is it how much people like you? If it is the second type then Rufus is certainly an admired fella. Here he has produced an aching beautiful, ultra camp journey through music, incorporating Counting Crows’ piano splendor, Jeff Buckley soaring vocals and waltzing cadenced prose. The album begins and ends with the superb ‘Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk’ an intriguing song of his own fragility. In typical Wainwright style, the lyrics rise and fall with the orchestra like a boat on the ocean. Rufus leads, with the piano, banjo, cello, drums and viola driving the song forward ...