Lambchop
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Biography
[Edit]Touted as "Nashville's most f*cked-up country band" by their label Merge Records, Lambchop was arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s. Their unclassifiable hybrid of country, soul, jazz, and avant-garde noise seemed at one time or another to drink from every conceivable tributary of contemporary music, its Baroque beauty all held together by the surreal lyrical wit and droll vocal presence of frontman Kurt Wagner. Although Lambchop's ever-rotating roster would later expand to over a dozen members, the group formed in 1986 as a simple three-piece teaming Wagner, guitarist Jim Watkins, and bassist Marc Trovillion, former high school classmates already ten years removed from the educational system. Originally dubbed Posterchild, the trio made its earliest recordings in Trovillion's bedroom, self-releasing a series of cassettes with titles like I'm F*cking Your Daughter. In time, the lineup began to grow and the band regularly performed live in and around the Nashville area, often at the area record shop, Lucy's (not coincidentally owned by Wagner's wife, Mary).
In 1992, Posterchild — now consisting of Wagner, Trovillion, guitarist Bill Killbrew, clarinetist Jonathan Marx, multi-instrumentalist Scott C. Chase, drummer Steve Goodhue, and percussionist Allen Lowery — released An Open Fresca + A Moist Towlette, a split single with friends Crop Circle Hoax. The 7" brought the group to the attention of entertainment lawyer George Regis, who issued cease-and-desist orders on behalf of his clients, the noise pop band Poster Children. After rejecting the names REN, Pinnacles of Cream, and Turd Goes Back, the band settled on Lambchop, added vocalist/saxophonist Deanna Varagona, steel guitarist Paul Niehaus, and organist John Delworth, and signed to Merge to release the 1993 single "Nine." Their debut LP, I Hope You're Sitting Down (aka Jack's Tulips), followed a year later. In many ways, this album would be the most conventional Lambchop record. Its Nashville origins and torch-and-twang ambience would saddle the band with the increasingly erroneous alt-country tag, although Wagner's Lou Reed-like vocals and bizarre narrative conceits — in particular the fan-favorite "Soaky in the Pooper," a vivid recounting of a bad LSD trip — immediately signaled their obvious distance from the likes of Uncle Tupelo or the Jayhawks.
The lovely How I Quit Smoking appeared in 1996 (although on the subsequent "Cigaretiquette" single, Wagner would proudly announce, "I'm smoking again"). Recorded live the previous Independence Day, the Hank EP followed later in 1996. Marking the debut of drummer Paul Burch, the disc represented the apotheosis of Lambchop's Billy Sherrill-inspired phase, its lush production evoking the Nashville sound so popular three decades earlier, but now completely passé among Music City's chart superstars. 1997's Thriller proved a major turning point; highlighted by the Muscle Shoals soul of "Your F*****g Sunny Day" and including no fewer than three songs penned by East River Pipe's F.M. Cornog, this sprawling, difficult album introduced the uncompromising eclecticism that would dominate Lambchop's work from here on out. The follow-up, 1998's What Another Man Spills, upped the ante further; for remarkably soulful covers of Curtis Mayfield's "Love Song (Give Me Your Love)" and Frederick Knight's "I've Been Lonely for So Long," Wagner's baritone drawl even gave way to a Prince-like falsetto. That same year, the group also backed Vic Chesnutt on his album The Salesman and Bernadette.
Lambchop's fifth full-length, Nixon, appeared in the spring of 2000. Supposedly a concept album exploring the presidency of the infamous Tricky Dick, Wagner even included a bibliography in the liner notes — a direct connection to the Watergate scandal remains unidentified. Though still criminally unknown at home, Lambchop enjoyed a much more substantial following overseas, and on May 13, 2000, they appeared at the London Royal Festival Hall; the gig was recorded and made available at U.K. appearances that fall as the Queens Royal Trimma limited-edition EP. (A 2001 European tour yielded the Treasure Chest of the Enemy EP.) The 2001 collection Tools in the Dryer assembled many of Lambchop's scattered singles, compilation tracks, and remixes.
After recording the purposefully spare Is a Woman in 2002, Wagner and company moved on to their most ambitious project yet — two simultaneously released albums, Aw C'Mon and No, You C'Mon, in which Lambchop was returned to full power and joined by a lush string section. The next year the musically experimental EP CoLAB came out, followed in the spring of 2006 by The Decline of Country & Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Woodwind Years, an eclectic collection of tracks that had never appeared before on Lambchop records, including one new song, "Gettysburg Address," and a record of all new material called Damaged later that summer. 2008 saw the release of the typically graceful and elegant OH (Ohio), followed in early 2012 by the group’s 11th full-length outing, the austere Mr. M., which offered up 11 lush, string-laden meditations on love and loss, all of which were dedicated to the late Vic Chesnutt.
Title: Tools In the Dryer
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Oh (Ohio) [Bonus Track Version]
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: CoLAB
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: The Decline of Country & Western Civilization Part II: The Woodwind Years
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: I Hope You're Sitting Down
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Mr. M (Bonus Track Version)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: What Another Man Spills
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: How I Quit Smoking
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Hank
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: No, You C'mon
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: When You Were Mine - Single
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Alternative
Title: OH (ohio)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Indie
Title: Nashville Does Dallas (A Collection Of Recording By Lambchop)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Alternative
Title: Flotus
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Tribute To Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Love (Single)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Live At The Shanghai Symphony Chamber Hall
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist, Indie
Title: The Hustle Unlimited - Single
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Alternative
Title: Damaged
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Nixon
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Country Rock, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: The Decline of the Country & Western Civilization (1993-1999)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Alternative
Title: CoLAB
Artist: Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Pop Rock, Indie
Title: Thriller
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Alternative
Title: Nixon (Reissue)
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Live At XX Merge
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative
Title: Aw C'mon
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Title: Mr. M
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Indie
Title: Is a Woman
Artist: Lambchop
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative
Collections
Title: Leonard Cohen (by) En Boca de
Genre: Folk Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
Genre: Country
Title: Merge Records Spring Sampler 2012
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Leonard Cohen - By - En Boca De
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Oh, Merge
Genre: Alternative
Title: Old Enough to Know Better
Genre: Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: Stroke - Songs for Chris Knox
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: THE ORIGINALS!
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Merge Sampler 2006
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: St. Thomas: Walk With Me
Genre: Rock
Title: Survive and Advance: A Merge Records Compilation
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: MRG100
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: New Directions Home 2012
Genre: Indie
Title: Rough Trade Shops 25 Years (CD3)
Genre: Industrial, Indie Rock, New Wave, Punk, IDM
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist March 2012
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist December 2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Back To Mine: Morcheeba
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Funk
Title: Eskimo Volume 2
Genre: Electronica, House, Disco, Synth Pop, Funk
Title: Abstract Funk Theory - Lo Fidelity Allstars (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: Nova Tunes 02
Genre: Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, House, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Reggae, Pop Rock, Funk
Title: Merge Records: Merge 25 Sampler
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: Summer Chill Classics (CD2)
Title: Tribute To Leonard Cohen: Songs Of Love And Love
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Love
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Uncut Presents 2004.06
Title: Rolling Stone New Noises Vol. 132
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Alternative
Title: Merge Records Spring Sampler 2019
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: La Torre Ibiza Volumen Tres
Genre: Downtempo
Title: 100 Greatest Alt-Rock Anthems (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Buddha-Bar XXII (By Ravin)
Genre: Ambient, Chill Out, Electronica, Lounge, Easy Listening
Title: Going To Georgia
Genre: Alternative, Indie
Title: 100 Greatest Alternative 90s (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Metal, Alternative
Title: 100 Greatest Alt Country & Americana (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Pop Rock, Alternative
Title: Alt-Country Essentials (CD1)
Featuring albums
Title: All Over Creation
Artist: Jason Ringenberg
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
Artist: Justin Vernon
Genre: Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Nashville, The Other Side of the Alley: Insurgent Country Volume 3
Artist: Various
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Progressive Country , Pop
Title: Leonard Cohen (By) En Boca De
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, World Music, Pop, Folk
Title: Acoustic Chill 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Downtempo, Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop