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Johnnie meets the Grammy Award-winning folk singer Loudon Wainwright and his featured album is Paul McCartney's re-issued debut solo album.

Johnnie Walker spins the hits and digs out the rarities from the decade of glitter, glam rock and The Good Life. This week, he chats to Loudon Wainwright, and his featured album is Paul McCartney's re-issued debut solo album which was first released in the aftermath of the Beatles' 1970 break-up.

A Grammy Award-winning American folk singer and satirical songwriter, Loudon is also the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche; brother of Sloan Wainwright; and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.

Inspired to take up the guitar after seeing Bob Dylan in concert in 1962, Wainwright's career began in the late 1960s when he was discovered playing in folk clubs by Milton Kramer, who became his manager. He signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and released his first album, Loudon Wainwright III, in 1970.

Wainwright is known for the 1972 novelty song Dead Skunk (In the Middle of the Road) and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") in TV show M*A*S*H, in which he appeared in three episodes during the third season in the 70s. He has a catalogue of 21 studio albums, is currently touring the UK, and his career-spanning boxset, 40 Odd Years, was released last month.

Also on the show, Allan Sutherland from Stonehaven recalls his memories of the decade in My 70s.

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Music Played

  • Hour 1

    • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

      Born To Run

      • Born To Run.
      • CBS.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Featured Album: McCartney

    • Paul McCartney

      The Lovely Linda

  • Paul McCartney

    Man We Was Lonely

  • The Isley Brothers

    That Lady (Part 1)

    • Blues And Soul: The Soul Years 1966-1999: Vol.3 1972-1973 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur.
    • 5.

  • Lou Reed

    Satellite Of Love

  • My 70s: Allan Sutherland

    • ABBA

      Sos

  • Poco

    Keep On Trying

  • Elton John & Kiki Dee

    Don't Go Breakin' My Heart

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The Boxer

  • The Drifters

    Saturday Night At The Movies

    • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
    • Global Television.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

    • Born To Run.
    • CBS.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Free Bird

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • Featured Album: McCartney

    • Paul McCartney

      Every Night

  • Hour 2

    • George Harrison

      What Is Life

      • George Harrison: All Things Must Pass.
      • Parlophone.
      • 11.

  • The Osmonds

    Crazy Horses

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.

  • Nils Lofgren

    Shine Silently

    • Nils.
    • A&M.

  • Featured Album: McCartney

    • Paul McCartney

      Maybe I'm Amazed

  • In conversation with Loudon Wainwright III

    • Loudon Wainwright III

      Dead Skunk

  • Loudon Wainwright III

    The Man Who Couldn't Cry

  • Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Midnight Train To Georgia

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 9.

  • Neil Young

    After The Gold Rush

    • Neil Young - After The Gold Rush.
    • Reprise.
    • 2.

  • Featured Album: McCartney

    • Paul McCartney

      Momma Miss America

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Jungleland

    • Born To Run.
    • Columbia Records.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Jun 2011 15:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2