Lambchop (band)
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 Lambchop playing at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester, August 2004
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Posterchild |
| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| Genre(s) | Alt-country |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Label(s) | Merge |
| Associated acts | Clockhammer, My Dad Is Dead, Silver Jews |
| Website | www.lambchop.net |
| Members | |
| Kurt Wagner William Tyler Tony Crow Sam Baker Matt Swanson Alex McManus Deanna Varagona Marc Trovillion Ryan Norris Scott Martin Paul Niehaus Roy Agee John Delworth |
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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.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio Albums
- 1994 I Hope You're Sitting Down/Jack's Tulips
- 1996 How I Quit Smoking
- 1997 Thriller
- 1998 What Another Man Spills
- 2000 Nixon
- 2002 Is a Woman
- 2004 Aw Cmon
- 2004 No You Cmon
- 2006 Damaged
- 2008 OH (Ohio)
[edit] Compilations
- 2001 Tools in the Dryer
- 2006 The Decline of the Country and Western Civilization (1993-1999)
- 2006 The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Part 2: The Woodwind Years
[edit] Tour only albums
- 2002 Pet Sounds Sucks (Live Great American Music Hall, SF)
- 2004 Boo Fucking Who? (Live, Brussels)
- 2006 Succulence|Succulence (Live ORF, Vienna)
- 2008 Rainer on My Parade
[edit] EPs
- 1996 Hank
- 2000 The Queens Royal Trimma (Live Royal Festival Hall, London – Tour Only)
- 2001 Treasure Chest of the Enemy (Tour Only)
- 2005 CoLab (with Hands Off Cuba)
[edit] DVDs
- 2007 No Such Silence
