Dinner at Eight

9/28/2020 Here's one of my favorites from Rufus Wainwright's 2004 masterpiece record, "Want One" Dinner at Eight is the final track of the album and it's about Rufus' dad, Loudon Wainwright, also a successful singer-songwriter. I went to see Rufus play a show in Vegas in 2005, and during that show he mentioned that he had been invited to a photo shoot for Rolling Stone magazine along with his dad. When the shoot was over Rufus said something like "well are you so glad that I got you in that magazine again?" and it turned into a nasty fight between he and his dad. "Why is it so, that I've always been the one who must go That I've always been the one to want to flee When in fact you were the one, long ago In the drifting white snow, who left me" I admire and respect the Wainwright family, not only for their artistry but for their honesty in song-writing. Rufus' parents divorced when he was young. I'm sure these lyrics sting like hell for his dad. Or even worse, the song that sister Martha Wainwright wrote about her dad titled "Bloody Mother F***** A*******" Honest and painful for their family, but makes for some good art.

Here's the song, heartbreaking and good, "Dinner at Eight"