Not so much about my life even, but just about the world and history and myth and so forth… I’ve always had a great passion for the Northeast, especially in the fall, especially now that we’re living in L.A., it’s even that much more acute. I’ve been working for years with my therapist, and we had these incredible conversations over the years that many times I wish I’d recorded. It was a sort of confluence, if that’s the right word, of events and subjects. On deciding to road trip with his therapist by his side Over the course of three one-hour episodes, Wainwright details family histories and other anecdotes from his time at McGill University in Montreal and Millbrook, the private New York boarding school he attended (which inspired one of his early songs) coming out to his mother, Canadian folk icon Kate McGarrigle and much more. Sauveur, Quebec, to New York City with his therapist, a.k.a. Now, he’s released an Audible Original, titled Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York, a narrated road trip that Wainwright took last year from St. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he’s been performing “quarantunes” from his living room piano, what he’s termed the Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective, keeping his fans entertained every Friday with new renditions of his songs (often filmed by his husband Jorn Weisbrodt). ![]() Although he hasn’t been able to go out on the road to share his songs with fans on a tour as he typically would, that hasn’t meant he hasn’t kept busy creatively. Earlier this summer, Rufus Wainwright released Unfollow the Rules, his first full-on pop album since 2012’s Out of the Game, after a three-month delay due to the Covid-19 shutdown.
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