Artist: Lambchop
Feature from web archive October 29, 2008
Lambchop still believes in the old, weird Nashville
Kurt Wagner has led a life in music for a couple of decades now, but one thing he had never tried was something most songwriters do after learning their first three chords: Perform solo. “I steadfastly tried to stay away from that,” he said. Understand the reason: This is the lead singer of Lambchop, a [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Lambchop – Toward a unified theory of vinyl evolution
Despite fan-generated rumors to the contrary, Kurt Wagner does not hate his home turf of Nashville. The earnest leader of the sometimes fourteen-piece ensemble Lambchop still lives there out of a kind of loyalty to its history and aesthetics. “I don’t resent anything about Nashville,” he says. “I’m a pretty good representation of a local [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Lambchop – Aw Cmon / No You Cmon
Nashville collective Lambchop are no stranger to difficult concept albums. Their much-admired 2000 release Nixon, near as anyone can tell, wasn’t actually about Nixon, and their latest, the heavily instrumental pair of simultaneously released albums Aw Cmon and No You Cmon, has its origins in a score that frontman Kurt Wagner composed to accompany F.W. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Lambchop – Is A Woman
Their sixth album in eight years finds Lambchop finding ever more intricate tapestries in their luxuriously unfolding music. With Is A Woman, the band reached for and has achieved a new level of intimacy. Love and beauty are the substance of both the songs and the sound. Kurt Wagner’s vocals exude confidence with such subtle [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Lambchop – Tools In The Dryer
With nearly a dozen years of releases under their belt, Lambchop have rooted around in their attic and cellar for this revealing set of odds and ends. Rather than adhering to a chronological parade, the set has been smartly sequenced to shine a light on their aesthetic inclinations. Moody countrypolitan rubs shoulders with rural-infused and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Lambchop – Nixon
There’s a sparkling highway running through the heart of Nashville, and near it, there’s a beaten trail, and off of that, there’s Lambchop, the Sweat Hogs of the Music City. The ever-changing head count ends up thirteen on Nixon, the band’s fifth full-length, release, and just like the album’s namesake, the resourceful porchestra goes on [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Lambchop – Troubadour (Los Angeles, CA)
Watching Lambchop enter the room is kinda like watching that old circus gag where dozens of clowns pile out of a Volkswagen Beetle. As if the head count were infinite, band members just kept emerging from the staircase that drops down to the stage at the Troubadour. In fact there were so many ‘Choppers — [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Vic Chesnutt / Lambchop / Paul Burch / Cyod – Lucy’s Record Shop (Nashville, TN)
With a mischievous half-smile, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner cut right to the point: “Why the long faces?” Why indeed. The capacity crowd on this Friday night was there to mourn the passing of Lucy’s Record Shop, the all-ages venue that for six years made Nashville a stop on indie rock’s underground railroad. In 1992, when the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Lambchop – Thriller
Lambchop, lovely weirdoes amidst a sea of alt-country rockers, are true innovators. Their music might best be described as ambient country pop, using strong melody oozing through lush velvety arrangements of whitewashed guitar, steel, horn and percussion. Texture is what it’s all about; capturing minute details of noise as soundscape and of smart lyrics delivered [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Lambchop – Mutton, Honey!
Strumming, banging on all manner of stuff — from organ keys to lacquer-thinner cans — blowing horns, and speak-singing colorful sound/word picture stories and moments in time, Lambchop is an informal Nashville ensemble of ten or so players. Their combination of sound is that of a southern ’70s kid’s parental record collection spinning all at [...]
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