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Lambchop: Damaged

Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2006

THERE WAS a time when Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop dwelled in the very eye of the alt.Americana hurricane: a folksy but literate Nashville troupe making highbrow country soul for the mind and heart. If their day is somewhat done, it reflects less on them than on the passing of the vogue for what Ben Thompson wittily dubbed "the Woodchuck Nation".

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