question: History is the twelfth studio album by which American singer-songwriter, who was the father of folk singer Loudon Wainwright III, and singer Sloan Wainwright?
answer: Loudon Snowden Wainwright Jr.
context: Title: Recovery (Loudon Wainwright album)
  Passage: Recovery is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on August 19, 2008 on Yep Roc Records.  The songs are "re-covers" from his first four albums: "Loudon Wainwright III" (1970), "Album II" (1971), "Album III" (1972) and "Attempted Mustache" (1973).
  Title: Album III
  Passage: Album III, as its title indicates, is the third full album from Loudon Wainwright III.  It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records.  "Album III" would spawn Loudon Wainwright's most popular hit single, "Dead Skunk", one of the many 'novelty songs' sprinkled throughout Wainwright's career.  Although Wainwright has maintained an ironic, sometimes sepulchral sense of humor, "Dead Skunk", despite its commercial success, has dogged him ever since, as he comments on 1985's album "I'm Alright", "Were you embarrassed about 'Dead Skunk'"?
  Title: History (Loudon Wainwright III album)
  Passage: History is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on September 21, 1992 on Charisma Records.  The album was recorded following the death of Wainwright's father, Loudon Wainwright Jr..  Regarding his father's death and its influence on "History", Wainwright stated that:
  Title: Martha Wainwright
  Passage: Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter.  She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle.  She was raised in a musical family along with her older brother, Rufus Wainwright, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  Title: Older Than My Old Man Now
  Passage: Older Than My Old Man Now is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on April 17, 2012 on 2nd Story Sound Records.  Described as "a gleefully morbid summing up of [Wainwright's] life in which he ponders childhood, family history, aging and death," the album is produced by "" (2009) collaborator Dick Connette, and features contributions from each of Wainwright's children.
  Title: Loudon Wainwright Jr.
  Passage: Loudon Snowden Wainwright Jr. (December 16, 1924 – December 12, 1988) was an American writer.  He was the father of folk singer Loudon Wainwright III and singer Sloan Wainwright, and grandfather to Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche.
  Title: Last Man on Earth (album)
  Passage: Last Man on Earth is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on September 24, 2001 on Red House Records.  Recorded in the wake of Wainwright's mother's death and the collapse of a romantic relationship, the album thematically addresses feelings of grief and loneliness.  In 2012, Wainwright noted, ""Last Man on Earth" was written right after my mother died, so a lot of the material on that record has to do with that momentous event.  The life circle was present on a lot of those songs."
  Title: Loudon Wainwright III
  Passage: Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor.  He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche; brother of Sloan Wainwright; and former husband of the late folksinger Kate McGarrigle.  He resides in Canada.
  Title: 10 Songs for the New Depression
  Passage: 10 Songs for the New Depression is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released in July 2010 through Proper Records.  Released forty years following his first studio album, "10 Songs" is Wainwright's first album since his Grammy Award-winning tribute project "" (2009).  The concept album was inspired by the late-2000s global financial crisis and recession, and features Wainwright backed by his own banjo, guitar and ukulele performances.
citations: Loudon Wainwright Jr. History (Loudon Wainwright III album)