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Wainwright has also appeared in a number of films, including small parts in The Aviator, Big Fish, Elizabethtown, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, 28 Days, and Knocked Up, and the television series Undeclared and Parks and Recreation. Three of his albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards: I'm Alright (1985), More Love Songs (1986), and High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2009), for which he won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in January 2010. Using a witty, self-mocking style, Wainwright has recorded over twenty albums on eleven different labels. His appearances spanned three episodes in its third season (1974–1975). Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song " Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show M*A*S*H.
He signed a record deal with Atlantic Records, which released his self-titled first album in 1970. He went to Boston and New York City to play in folk clubs and was eventually noticed by Milton Kramer, who became his manager. Wainwright soon bought his own guitar and in about a year wrote nearly twenty songs. An old lobsterman named Edgar inspired him to borrow a friend's guitar and write his first song, "Edgar". Later, in Rhode Island, Wainwright's grandmother got him a job working in a boatyard. He had played the guitar while in school but later sold it for yoga lessons while living in San Francisco. Wainwright's career began in the late 1960s.
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Andrew's School in Delaware, where the movie Dead Poets Society was filmed. Among his sisters is Sloan Wainwright, also a singer. Wainwright grew up in Bedford, New York, in Westchester County.
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His father was not a professional musician, but he played the piano and wrote some songs, exposing his children to musicians such as Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, whom Wainwright later cited as influences. His great-great-grandfather was the politician and diplomat A. Wainwright was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the son of Martha Taylor, a yoga teacher, and Loudon Wainwright Jr., a columnist and editor for Life magazine.
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