A Conversation with Loudon Wainwright III – HuffPost 9.8.14

Mike Ragogna: You’ve got a new album, Haven’t Got The Blues Yet and it looks like you’re kind of expanding your style here. What prompted that?

Loudon Wainwright: The producer on the new record, Haven’t Got The Blues is this fellow called David Mansfield, who’s highly regarded and pretty well-known as an all-arounder, a guy who plays a lot of the instruments that have strings on them, I believe; fiddles and guitars and pedal steel guitar and mandolin. He’s also a friend of mine and has been on a lot of my records over the years. The way the record came about is that he has a little studio in Maplewood, New Jersey, and I used to go out there and he had some skills on the board, being an engineer. We just put this together over the period of about a year. I don’t think we were thinking conceptually of what was going to make this one particularly different; Older Than My Old Man Now focused a lot on death and decay of course and the new one is death and decay and depression!