Artist	Song
Rufus Wainwright	Gay Messiah
from Want Two (2007)
Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle	Over the Rainbow
from Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall (2007)
Rufus Wainwright	Sonnet 20
from All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (Bonus Track Version) (2010)
Rufus Wainwright	Peach Trees
from Want Two (2007)
Rufus Wainwright	The Tower of Learning
from Poses (2002)
Rufus Wainwright	Barcelona
from Rufus Wainwright (1998)
Rufus Wainwright	Release the Stars
from Release the Stars (2007)
Rufus Wainwright	Give Me What I Want And Give It To Me Now!
from All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (Bonus Track Version) (2010)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright	What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
from The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (2005)
Antony & The Johnsons with Rufus Wainwright	What Can I Do? (With Rufus Wainwright)
from I Am a Bird Now (2007)
Rufus Wainwright	When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
from Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall (2007)
Rufus Wainwright	Wonderful / Song for Children
from War Child - Heroes, Vol. 1 (2009)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright	Better Times Are Coming
from Songs of the Civil War (1991)
Rufus Wainwright	This Love Affair
from Alright, Already (Live In Montreal) - EP (2005)
Kate McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright	Lowlands Away
from Rogue's Gallery - Pirate Ballads, Sea Song and Chanteys (2008)

Comment:

Part of what makes Rufus Wainwright’s work resonate in your bones, and sets him apart from the singer-songwriter pack, is his sense of musical history. Not only has he pulled the ultimate gender-bender by cutting a song-for-song tribute to Judy Garland’s classic Carnegie Hall concert album, inhabiting standards like “When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)” with a deep-down feeling for their — and Judy’s — pure emotional [i]power[/i]; he proudly puts on his sailing shoes for a duet on the traditional sea shanty “Lowlands Away” with his famed folksinger mom Kate McGarrigle. And Rufus rattles the art-pop chain in which he’s a luminous link with his version of “Wonderful / Song for Children” from Brian Wilson’s majestic song suite [i]Smile[/i].

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