Will he or won’t he?

Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, the headliner at this year’s Ozark Folk Festival in Eureka Springs, is known to many as the guy who sang the 1973 novelty hit “Dead Skunk,” which hit No. 16 on Billboard’s Top Pop Singles chart.

His Web site notes that the song was No. 1 in Little Rock for six weeks. And in a rural state like ours, many of us know skunk scent all too well.

“Since I’m coming to Arkansas, I might sing it,” he says.

But he might not.

“Some people in my audience anticipate it; many who are familiar with my work are kind of happy not to hear it,” he says ...