"My mom was Kate McGarrigle, who formed folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle with my aunt. My dad is the folk singer Loudon Wainwright III. They were only married for five years, but wrote songs about each other and about my older brother Rufus and I. My dad wrote Five Years Old about missing my fifth birthday. That changed my life. Sometimes it's easier to apologise in music than in person."
"Recently, I'm upset that I can't listen to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, because the Luke Combs country version has ruined it for me. The first song I fell in love with When I was eight, I had my mom write out the lyrics to Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves so I could listen to it on repeat on this little boombox in our house and learn all the words."
"I've been learning The Kiss by Judee Sill. She was a remarkable artist, and it is considered her masterpiece. It is absolutely gorgeous, but also tragic, because she died at such an early age. The song I do at karaoke I'm really bad at karaoke. I guess I would do Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. The singer in me wants to sound like Stevie Nicks, but unfortunately Martha shows up pretty fast in my karaoke interpretations."
Her mother was Kate McGarrigle, who formed the folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle with her aunt. Her father is the folk singer Loudon Wainwright III. Both parents wrote songs about each other and about her and her brother Rufus. Her father wrote 'Five Years Old' about missing her fifth birthday. She cannot listen to Tracy Chapman’s 'Fast Car' because a Luke Combs country cover has altered her experience of the song. At eight she learned 'Walking on Sunshine' by Katrina and the Waves by having her mother write the lyrics. She is learning 'The Kiss' by Judee Sill for funeral plans, struggles with karaoke, knows Leonard Cohen background parts, and secretly likes 'Memory' from Cats.
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