Nashville's Lambchop return to retail shelves next month with their eleventh full-length studio album OH (Ohio). Over the years the country-soul collective has employed as may as 16 sixteen members, rotating in and out of the fold, but for this go-round the lineup is slim (relatively speaking) with a core of eight musicians tapped for [...]~~
Listening to "Oh (Ohio)" by Nashville alt-country stars Lambchop was certainly an eye-opening experience; as the album cover might suggest, there is a sensuality in Kurt Wagner's voice which seems to come from the music of Barry White, or Al Greene, rather than conventional country. This interesting fusion of influences makes Lambchop sound simultaneously contemporary and traditional, easily ...
Nashville indie/country mainstays Lambchop have just released their new album, Oh (Ohio), on Merge Records (also home to Spoon, Oakley Hall, She & Him). The standout track, "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed", is an absolutely gorgeous gem of a song. I can't get enough. I love the beautiful fingerpicking and walking bass line. Kurt Wagner's vocals [...]
All photos by David Greenwald Kurt Wagner of Lambchop played to a fans-only crowd at the Echoplex last week, thanks to the My Bloody Valentine show across town and perhaps also due to touring under his own name instead of as Shari Lewis' favorite puppet. While 14 years of thoughtful Americana ought to earn an act a full house, the show didn't suffer for the privacy during a night that was ...
Nashville's Lambchop return to retail shelves next month with their eleventh full-length studio album OH (Ohio). Over the years the country-soul collective has employed as may as 16 sixteen members, rotating in and out of the fold, but for this go-round the lineup is slim (relatively speaking) with a core of eight musicians tapped for [...]~~
LAMBCHOP on MySPACE . From the LP OH (OHIO) , 2008 >>> [ MP3 ] "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" [ MP3 ] "Of Raymond" From the LP NO, YOU C'MON , 2004 >>> [ MP3 ] "Low Ambition" From the LP HOW TO QUIT SMOKING , 1996 >>> [ MP3 ] "Life's Little Tragedy" [ MP3 ] "Theone"
Kurt Wagner aka the principal from the Nashville collective Lambchop does his best cover of Bob Dylan's "You're A Big Girl Now" for this, the sixty-seventh video recorded by those dudes in London, UK for the "Black Cab Sessions". It's...
More concert announcements for you (the last quarter of the year will be a busy one!):Slim Twig is at The Music Gallery on September 6.With Merge Records releasing the new album "Oh (Ohio)" by Lambchop on October 7, some tour dates have been announced including a stop in Toronto on October 6 at The Drake Undergound.Couldn't book the Silver Dollar even he wanted to (considering what happened las...
man, i cant believe its been a year already. seemed just like yesterday that i totally didnt get into and ignored last year's talk like a pirate day. why this year then, greg? glad you axed, citizen. well in observance of said day the fine folks at merge and kurt wagner and his lamchopians are [...]