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Old chums offer plenty of despair, but also hope

Monday, October 19, 2009

By Michael Hochanadel

“Compassionate conservatism” was demonstrably a fraud, but when Richard Thompson brought “my old chum Loudon” Wainwright to The Egg on Sunday, it was a tag-team triumph of tender sarcasm; a singer-songwriter show sizzling with political-social-cultural grievances but heaped high with hard-won hopefulness....

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