Lambchop

Bio:

New Kurt Wagner Solo Tour dates at http://www.lambchop.net/tourdates!!!!

New Lambchop Album!! (OH) Ohio!!!!!! Oct. 7th Release!!!!!

From Wikipedia: Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre, though its music resists easy classification. The music website Allmusic refers to them as "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s". [1] Never a band with a "core" lineup, Lambchop through the years has consisted of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, frontman Kurt Wagner. Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music. Whatever the style, the characteristic mood of Lambchop's music is evoked by Wagner's distinctive songwriting - lyrically subtle and ambiguous, the vocals melodic but understated. Setting this apart from other minimalist songwriters is the large group of backing musicians, with the range of instruments and styles that it brings. Wagner's songwriting bears similarities with soul musicians such as Barry White, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye as much as with country and folk music, and can be seen to embody Kris Kristofferson’s dictum that “country music is the white man’s soul”. (taken from www.lambchop.net)

From the Merge website:..>

From the band that bought you 1997s brilliant Thriller comes another fantastic album, DAMAGED. Lambchop is a loose musical collective of anywhere from 5 to 17 players from Nashville, TN, and they sound like no one else. For almost 20 years Lambchop has been perfecting the New Nashville Sound despite the fact that NPRs Renée Montagne once described them as a band that Nashvilles Music Row will never clutch to its bosom. Critics have long held Lambchop in high esteem and attribute their unique sound to the bizarre mélange of influences drawn on by their mastermind, Kurt Wagner, one of the most singular, and best, songwriters of our time. (Salon). ALL MUSIC GUIDE calls Lambchop arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s. For More info on the upcoming release (oH) Ohio, check out here: http://www.strangerdance.com/yarrrgh-lambchop-says-talk-like-a-pirate/ LAMBCHOP is Nashville's most fucked-up country band. They aren't influenced by country music--they influence country music. Their music is even smoother than Del Reeves, and they have more musicians than Tanya Tucker's bathroom antics: two guitars, one bass, two drummers, pedal steel guitar, open-end wrenches, lacquer-thinner can, organ, xylophone, euphonium, trombone, baritone sax, trumpet, clarinet, bongoes, resonating metal square, and a vanilla extract bottle. Although they strive to be truly Nashville, they are virtually ignored in Nashville. In a town where every No. 1 single is recognized with a splashy Billboard overlooking the offices on Music Row, they labor quietly and diligently, waiting for the day when someone--Tony Brown, Aubrey Mayhew, Faith Hill--will return their phone calls or sexual advances. Chet Atkins may have turned his back on country music, but Lambchop haven't. As they discreetly continue to develop the New Nashville Sound in recording studios all across Music City, they know the day will come when the deadbeat moms and dads of country music will fess up and recognize their illegitimate children as the true inheritors of country music.

This page is in no way, shape or form affiliated with the actual band, other than the fact that we all are here to pay tribute to some great musicians! I have uploaded some songs, and of course I cannot let you download them, (that would be stealing!) If you like Lambchops music, please do as I have and buy as many albums as humanly possible. Every single one of them is worth a listen to! You can add the songs to your profile, and requests are always taken into consideration. I've included some links, interviews, tour dates (when possible), pictures and places to buy albums (or songs!) to make it easier for you to discover more about this great band. If you would like to join in on some discussion with other FOL (Friends of Lambchop), please join the Lambchop group at: http://groups.myspace.com/Lambchopflubt. Please take any and all information on this page with a grain of salt, and visit www.lambchop.net for the official site. Disclaimer: Some content on this page was taken from other sites on the web, most notably www.lambchop.net. I have to give credit where credit is due! Buy Lambchop music!! For an excellent discography, go to www.lambchop.info. If you know of any other Lambchop sites out there that should be listed, let me know and I'll do my best to post them here. Also, if you have any video or photos let me know as well. Thanks!..>

Member Since:

August 26, 2004

Members:

Lambchop has an ever changing mambership, here are some key players, and special guests: Paul Burch , Deanna Varagona , Kurt Wagner , William Tyler, Dennis Cronin , Sam Baker, Ryan Norris, Scott Martin, Paul Niehaus , Mark Nevers , Allen Lowrey , Marc William Trovillion , Jonathan Marx , John Delworth , Scott C. Chase, Steve Goodhue, Bill Killebrew, Matt Swanson, Tony Crow, Alex McManus, Hank Tilbury, Mike Doster, John Mock, David Davidson, Pamela Sixfin, John Catchings, Kristen Wilkinson, Clara m. Olson. Did I forget someone? Let me know!

Influences:

..>......> Above: "The One" Live @ The Bowery Ballroom, NYC. (I was there!)

'Swap Shop,' an audio documentary by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (Long Haul Productions) and featuring a new original song by Lambchop entitled "Paperback Bible," aired on NPR's All Things Considered in April: http://www.longhaulpro.org/

Sounds Like:

Nothing you have ever heard before.

Record Label:

merge

Label Type:

Indie