Lambchop
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Lambchop: Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
Review by Ben Thompson, Observer Music Monthly, 1 February 2004
LIKE OUTKAST'S Speakerboxx/ The Love Below, the eighth album by Nashville's premier artisan country/ soul collective is a double-disc set designed to prompt endless speculation ...
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Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, November 1997
Fourth album in three years from Kurt Wagner's Nashville swingers is a pithy eight tracks in duration, including an instrumental title number and three compositions ...
Lambchop: What Another Man Spills
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, October 1998
FOURTH ALBUM from mutant soul-country oddities. ...
"Alternative country is what punks play when they grow up..."
Overview by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 16 October 1998
Tom Cox on the new bands that are making country music sexy ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 4 February 2000
ONE OF the problems of being a critically-lauded cult success with scant resources is that fans' well-meaning allowances can lead to low expectations, particularly regarding ...
Kings Of Americana: Lambchop, Calexico, Wheat
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2000
Lambchop THE GREAT AMERICAN Music Hall is an exotic relic in the middle of San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Outside, the streets are full of junkies, hobos ...
Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
A NEW KIND of backwoodsiness comes courtesy of lugubrious Nashvillians Lambchop, whose Kurt Wagner sounds like (prime influence/collaborator) Vic Chesnutt seasoned with shadings of Al ...
Lambchop: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2000
"THERE'S SO many of you!" Peering out uncertainly from under a peaked work-cap, what Lambchop's Kurt Wagner sees is his biggest British crowd to date, ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Paul Burch Jr; C Scott Chase; Dennis Cronin; John Delworth; Allen Lowery; Alex McManus; Jonathan Marx; Mark Nevers; Paul Niehaus; Matt Swanson; Marc Trovillion; Deanna ...
Lambchop: Somerset House, London/Tahiti 80: The Spitz, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 14 July 2001
THE OPEN-AIR Georgian quadrant of Somerset House may be an unusually elegant setting for a gig, but it has its drawbacks when the main attraction ...
Overview by Tom Cox, The Observer, 21 October 2001
Country has gone way beyond Nashville, says Tom Cox. It's the new rebel music. ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2002
Kurt Wagner, songwriter and former floor-layer, has stripped down the sound of his 13-strong band for their latest and finest album. He tells Ben Thompson ...
Review by Eric Weisbard, Rolling Stone, 14 March 2002
Arty big band with hidden charms ...
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, April 2002
A year ago, Kurt Wagner was laying floors. Now his country-soul collective Lambchop have become Nashville's strangest success story ...
Lambchop: Aw Cmon /No You Cmon
Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, February 2004
Not a double album, we're told, though you can't buy one without the other. Nashville country-soul collective's seventh (and eighth) full-length release(s). ...
Kurt Wagner: The quiet American
Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 6 February 2004
LAMBCHOP are America's leading underground band, secret kings of a scene too modest to be named. They have turned their backs on the bombastic MTV ...
Lambchop: Paranoid Schizophrenia
Report and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, March 2004
On Lambchop's new twin CDs, Black Sabbath mix with soul and country. Call it what you like – just don't call it a double. ...
Tracks of His Tears: Kurt Wagner and Lambchop
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2004
IT’S KURT Wagner who spots The Nipple. ...
Lambchop: Hayward Gallery, London
Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 28 July 2006
LAMBCHOP are one of those cult American bands that push all the right "alt" buttons: alt.country, alt.rock, alt.symphonic pop. Their approach to songcraft recalls the ...
Review and Interview by 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 ...
Damage Control: Lambchop's Kurt Wagner
Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2008
LAMBCHOP DEVOTEES can rest easy: despite frontman Kurt Wagner's solo tour of Europe last autumn, the Nashville collective have not made their last elegantly sombre ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, November 2008
Best in nearly a decade from newly-trimmed Nashville collective. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2008
There are few bands that this magazine has championed as long and ardently as Lambchop. This fluctuating collective have dramatically broadened the palette of country ...
Lambchop: Elegy for a friend and mentor, bathed in Sinatra strings
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2012
IF YOU'RE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING NEW, you might as well learn from the best. There aren't many records categorised by iTunes as indie rock ...
Lambchop stands out from the herd
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Boston Herald, 17 April 2012
YOU'LL GET THE cut of meat, of course. And you'll find Lamb Chop, Shari Lewis' iconic hand puppet from the '60s. But at No. 1, ...
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, December 2016
WHILE THEY MAY have been conveniently lumped in with alt. country, Kurt Wagner's Lambchop have always had a lot more to offer than that suggests. ...
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