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Lambchop: Is a Woman
Out now on Merge (US) and CitySlang (UK)
See tracklisting in the discography
and some reviews.
new tour CD: Pet Sounds Sucks
See discography
for details
IN THE NEWS:
New Lambchop tour CD.
On sale right now at some shows is a new tour CD, "Pet Sounds
Sucks," which is 9 tracks of a show from San Francisco of March
this year. Plus the extra track "flub." I do not know
if flub is the same as the one on TCOE (ver 2). You better bring
yer money to the show, cuz there's only a thousand of them made.
Lambchop originally wanted to record and sell each of their shows
in this fashion but the logistics have proved too great. Perhaps
in the future.
Lambchop EP and video.
City Slang Records is set to release another flurry of remixes for
the title track of the new album "Is a Woman" featuring
the tweaking Schneider TM, Maxwell Implosion and Alpha. The CD will
be enhanced to feature a video for "Is a Woman" directed
by the Shynola group (previous work on UNKLE, Stephen Malkmus, and
Radiohead's "Pyramid Song")
Lambchop does Lee, Hazlewood that is.
The Legendary pop mind behind Duane Eddy's and Nancy Sinatra's biggest
hits gets the royal cover treatment by a number of bands on a forthcoming
tribute album. Lambchop's contribution is "Never Had a Gun"
And with that little bit of news, my count of Lambchop
officially-released covers not appearing on an album in the year
2002 now stands at 4: Kinks "Art Lover," Sisters of Mercy
"This Corrosion," Rolling Stones "Backstreet Girl,"
and Lee Hazlewood "Never Had a Gun."
"So
which one of you is DJ CoolHands?"--Kurt Wagner
to DJs Pinkteeth and CoolHands
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
LAMBCHOP 2002
EUROPEAN TOUR #3:
September 16 2002 Frankfurt »Künstlerhaus Mousonturm«
/ D
September 17 2002 Berlin »Schiller Theater« / D
September 18 2002Düsseldorf »Zakk« / D
September 19 2002 Utrecht »Tivoli« / NL
September 20 2002 Brussels »Cirque Royal (with Lee Hazlewood)«
/ B
September 21 2002 Rennes »Air Libre« / F
September 22 2002 Tourcoing »Le Grand Mix« / F
September 23 2002 Paris »La Cigale« / F
September 24 2002 Copenhagen »Pumpehuset« / DK
September 25 2002 Malmö »KB« / S
September 26 2002 Oslo »Rockefeller« / N
September 27 2002 Trondheim »Studentersamfundet« / N
LAMBCHOP
2002 AMERICAN TOUR #2:
October 31 2002 Chicago, IL Abbey Pub
November 01 2002 Columbus, OH Wexner Center
November 02 2002 Cincinnati, OH Southgate House
November 04 2002 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
November 06 2002 Toronto, ONT Trinity Chapel
November 07 2002 Northampton, MA Iron Horse
November 08 2002 Boston, MA TBA
November 09 2002 New York, NY Boery Ballroom
November 10 2002 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
November 11 TBA
November 12 TBA
November 13 Carrboro, NC Carrboro ArtsCenter
November 14 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
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UP WITH LAMBCHOP:
1) EMAIL ME (Jamie)
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about the band, discography, or upcoming events, or if you would
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Find out what other Lambchop fans are talking and thinking about.
You won't get inundated like Postal Blowfish, but it's informative
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Just follow the instructions from
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LAMBCHOP
If you haven't heard of them, you probably aren't from Nashville,
France, or the UK.
Lambchop was formed in Nashville,
TN in about 1986 under the moniker "poster child." After a threatened
lawsuit from warner bros. band PosterChildren for copyright enfringement,
the band changed names in 1993. They often played at Lucy's record
shop on Church St. during its six year stint as the first all-ages
club in Nashville with national indie-rock credibility (It was also
known as a fine record store). Their regular playing was due mostly
to the fact that the singer Kurt, and Lucy's owner, Mary were married.
Yet Lambchop never closed a show--it was always either a backup band
or an opener for the likes of Vic Chesnutt, Guided By Voices, Doo
Rag, Bugskull, June of 44, Superchunk, Portastatic, Spent, Blonde
Redhead, and many other Chicago, Louisville, or North Carolina based
acts as well as many Nashville bands.
Their largest exposures have been
the following: playing the second stage for several weeks on the 1994
Lollapalooza along with Stereolab,
when lambchop was still but a forming band; playing with Vic Chesnutt
on Late Night with Conan O'Brien; and playing with Vic Chesnutt on
the PBS series called "Sessions." Because of the sheer size of the
band (seven to fourteen members at any given time) the band seldom
tours, so check them out when they do.
In conclusion, they most definitely are not a Sherri Lewis tribute
band.
Here's the official biographical
listing of Lambchop as on the Merge
Records Homepage:
"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."
For a little about me, click here.
I'm yours, baby.
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