Lambchop (band)

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Lambchop is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre, though its music resists easy classification.

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”.

Discography

1994 I Hope You're Sitting Down/Jack's Tulips
1996 How I Quit Smoking
1997 Thriller
1998 What Another Man Spills
2000 Nixon
2001 Tools in the Dryer
2002 Is a Woman
2004 Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
2006 The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Pt. 2
2006 Damaged (August)

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