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Nashville. Bottle after bottle of Jack Daniels crash into the wire netting that protects the stage. John Belushi asks the Barman: "What kinda music do ya play here?" - "Both kinds, Country and Western..."
The "Alt Country" or "Americana" movement has laid the old Nashville ghost to rest. Calexico, Whiskeytown, Jim White, the Lost Highway Record Company... have all bandied together and caused this new style of Country music to really take off.
Kurt Wagner, one of the leading "Americana" artists: "When I was a child and we moved to Nashville, I remember looking out the back window of the car and thinking to myself... My God, Nashville! What on Earth has possessed them to come to Nashville... the start was a bit difficult. Just because I didn't have the same accent, all those red-neck country fans kept coming up to me looking to pick a fight".
In 1987 Wagner started to play music with some friends of his in his wife's record shop.
Their first record came out in 1994 ("Jack's Tulips"). Lambchop, after six LPs, have become a reference a reference point in all "Americana".
Is a Woman
On their last record "Nixon", Lambchop ventured down the soul lined avenues of Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, but they still managed to hold onto their Nashville roots. Rich instrumentation and a wonderfully expressive voice driving the songs along. "Is a Woman" picks up from where the last record left off. The new member Tony Crow with his jazzy piano and Kurt Wagner, red baseball cap and all, talk to us of everyday life as observed from close up. Maybe Black music just wasn't all that far removed from where Hank Williams was going after all.
The "Alt Country" or "Americana" movement has laid the old Nashville ghost to rest. Calexico, Whiskeytown, Jim White, the Lost Highway Record Company... have all bandied together and caused this new style of Country music to really take off.
Kurt Wagner, one of the leading "Americana" artists: "When I was a child and we moved to Nashville, I remember looking out the back window of the car and thinking to myself... My God, Nashville! What on Earth has possessed them to come to Nashville... the start was a bit difficult. Just because I didn't have the same accent, all those red-neck country fans kept coming up to me looking to pick a fight".
In 1987 Wagner started to play music with some friends of his in his wife's record shop.
Their first record came out in 1994 ("Jack's Tulips"). Lambchop, after six LPs, have become a reference a reference point in all "Americana".
Is a Woman
On their last record "Nixon", Lambchop ventured down the soul lined avenues of Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, but they still managed to hold onto their Nashville roots. Rich instrumentation and a wonderfully expressive voice driving the songs along. "Is a Woman" picks up from where the last record left off. The new member Tony Crow with his jazzy piano and Kurt Wagner, red baseball cap and all, talk to us of everyday life as observed from close up. Maybe Black music just wasn't all that far removed from where Hank Williams was going after all.
