This 2012 album has been referred to as a gleefully morbid summing up of Wainwright’s life at that point in which he ponders childhood, family history, aging and death. The title alludes to his father, Loudon Wainwright, Jr., who was aged 63 when he died. Wainwright noted, “When you’re 65, everything seems to be somewhat in the rear-view, or at least in the side-view. Well, not everything, and hopefully your windshield wipers are still working. I'm also old enough to have a lot of friends that have died already, people I knew and was close to. The whole album is about, in a sense, the handwriting on the wall for all of us, and that’s been the situation with the songs I’ve written throughout my career. Whether it’s declining powers or family skirmishes or too much hanging out in the bar, this is all material that I’m assuming my audience knows about and is going through. Or if they’re not going through it at the time, they’ll eventually get there.”
This 2012 album has been referred to as a gleefully morbid summing up of Wainwright’s life at that point in which he ponders childhood, family history, aging and death. The title alludes to his father, Loudon Wainwright, Jr., who was aged 63 when he died. Wainwright noted, “When you’re 65, everything seems to be somewhat in the rear-view, or at least in the side-view. Well, not everything, and hopefully your windshield wipers are still working. I'm also old enough to have a lot of friends that have died already, people I knew and was close to. The whole album is about, in a sense, the handwriting on the wall for all of us, and that’s been the situation with the songs I’ve written throughout my career. Whether it’s declining powers or family skirmishes or too much hanging out in the bar, this is all material that I’m assuming my audience knows about and is going through. Or if they’re not going through it at the time, they’ll eventually get there.”
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