Comments on: A Conference, a Loudon Wainwright album, and a Question.

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:40:34 +0000

Sorry—not the McGarrigle Family Album—the McGarrigle Hour. From the sleeve notes: “Chaim, the working Philosophy professor, has managed a simultaneous second career as a session and touring musician. But now we find he’s been a secret songwriter as well….” (of track 20, “Time on my hands”.)

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:00:30 +0000

I’m sorry, Belle; I didn’t realize he was family. It’s just that both names, particularly taken together, sound so incongruous in the context of modern music.

By: harry b

harry b — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:46:16 +0000

That’s why I asked you, Belle. But it did occur to me that even he might not know (and that even Jerry might not know) if the mysterious CT (if he is indeed a single person) keeps those sides of his life sufficiently separate. I was hoping that someone else with better connections than I had been curious before and found it out. Please do ask your mum to ask, though.

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:41:17 +0000

hey, Loudon is my cousin, you know. I rarely see him but I’ll ask my mom to ask. and tom t.,if you think Loudon Wainwright III is a joke, just come on and have a chat with my cousin Stuyvesant Wainwright V.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:41:18 +0000

This is some elaborate gag that I’m not hip enough to, right? Let me guess: Loudon Wainwright III and Chaim Tannenbaum are the real names of Bono and The Edge?

By: Scott Eric Kaufman

Scott Eric Kaufman — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:31:58 +0000

The funniest moment on the most (and only) painful episode of Undeclared: When Loudon, as Hal Karp, picks up Marshall's guitar and serenades Adam Sandler. Good times, good times. (Sorry for the random bit; I'd answer the other question if only I knew, um, the answer.)

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:15:55 +0000

The chaim tannenbaum who plays on the McGarrigle Family Album is certainly a philosopher when he’s not being a musician, if that helps. It does sound as if they might be the same guy.

By: harry b

harry b — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:17:40 +0000

I have more reasons than the fact they have the same name to suspect they are identical with each other….but nothing that is more than circumstantial. Belle?

By: Jimmy Doyle

Jimmy Doyle — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:12:37 +0000

I doubt it; neither name is particularly rare among Jewish people.

Knowing Cohen, though, it’s perfectly possible.