Grown Man is the thirteenth studio album by American

United States

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 singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is 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.To...

, released on October 2, 1995 on Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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. The release is generally considered less stark and somewhat more humorous that its predecessor, History

History (Loudon Wainwright III album)

History is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on September 21, 1992 on Charisma Records. The album was recorded following the death of Wainwright's father, Loudon Wainwright Jr....

.

Grown Man contains a song addressed to his daughter, Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...

, entitled "Father/Daughter Dialogue", on which they duet.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Loudon Wainwright III; except where indicated

1. "The Birthday Present"
2. "Grown Man"
3. "That Hospital"
4. "Housework"
5. "Cobwebs"
6. "A Year"
7. "Father/Daughter Dialogue"
8. "1994"
9. "I.W.I.W.A.L.(I Wish I Was a Lesbian)"
10. "Just A John"
11. "I Suppose"
12. "Dreaming"
13. "The End Has Begun"
14. "Human Cannonball"
15. "Treasure Untold" (Jimmie Rodgers
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    , Ellsworth T. Cozzens)

Personnel

• Loudon Wainwright III - guitar, vocals
• Dom Cortese - accordion
  Accordion
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• Richard Crooks - drums
• Steve Gaboury - organ, accordion
• John Kaye - percussion
• Randy Landau - bass
• Jeffrey Lesser - percussion, Jew's harp, vocals
• David Mansfield
  David Mansfield
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   - bouzouki
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  , fiddle
  Fiddle
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  , guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , pedal steel, electric & slide guitar
• Chaim Tannenbaum - banjo
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
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  , vocals
• Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
  
  - vocals on "Father/Daughter Dialogue"