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Lambchop: Americana, Bound For 'Ohio'. Interview and live performances of "Ohio, "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed," and "National Talk Like a Pirate Day."
Read more... Every week, La Blogotheque invites an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session. Watch "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" and "I Believe In You."
Read more... Kurt takes a rainy cab ride and covers Dylan's 'You’re a big girl now.'
Read more... "The Chop Wagner brought to D.C. was modest compared to previous lineups (which have swelled to 20 players), but judging from the dynamic range they displayed, it may be the ideal setup to express his soul-rock-jazz-poetry hybrid. The key was guitarist William Tyler, who played with a sympathy, tastefulness and sting worthy of Steve Cropper. "
Read more... "Not that those who love Lambchop want the masses to discover their favorite band. Sure, they wouldn't mind a few additional ardent followers, but the music that Wagner makes is so sublime ... so ethereal and wonderful ... that it's like a secret getaway, a secluded place in the wilderness where you can wallow in beauty and drift away on clouds and not have to share it with anyone except for a chosen few."
Read more... "In its way, Lambchop found the sweet spot repeatedly during the concert, be it with a lovely melody, Wagner's special lyric emphasis, or the band's relaxed but intuitive reading of its leader's vision."
Read more... "When the entire album was being worked on, the presidential primaries and the notion of Ohio being a pivotal place was in the air a lot," Wagner said. "I'm sure it's confusing to what the hell the songs mean. But, to me, it's a legitimate thing. I always try to let the experience of what's happening when I'm writing enter into everything."
Read more... There's no band that really sounds like Lambchop...But with the opening chords of "OH (ohio)...it's clear how carefully arranged each part is, how Wagner's melodies quiver and surge, and how the whole feels like a living, pulsing organism. Bass player Matt Swanson was astonishing...Tony Crow...sat behind a Kurzweil keyboard, finding the right spaces for quick, elegant runs...drummer Scott Martin kept every song tight....
Read more... Lambchop's most recent album, last year's OH (ohio), is its most evocative and most purely melodic disc, a collection of love songs and dream songs that pushes Wagner's word-association games past the point of simple play....OH (ohio) ends with "I Believe," a song written and recorded by Don Williams, a smooth and nuanced singer who has never resisted sentimentality. In Lambchop's hands, the familiar song becomes a mysterious reverie--beautiful, gossamer and strange, but utterly free of irony.
Read more... Lambchop is the kind of band that slips quietly into your life...The music is familiar, but not quite; like an aunt who shows up for Christmas with an unannounced nose job. You want to call it country, but you know that's wrong, alt- or otherwise, and it in no way explains the splashes of Burt Bacharach or Earth, Wind & Fire.
Read more... "...the strong, mysterious songs on 10th album OH (Ohio) are his best since Nixon. ...After a pass through old favourites, this perfectly judged gig finishes with Don Williams's "I Believe in You."
Read more... "As gigs go, though, it’s pretty special...The sound is perfect, absolutely crystal clear - a kaleidoscope of interlocking parts forming a musical jigsaw of something really quite beautiful."
Read more... Lambchop can lift the roof off of any venue when they get into full swing.
Read more... "'Ohio' borrows a dusky mood from Leonard Cohen, and, though piano, guitars and backing singers cluster into the mix, they're spaced out thin enough to let the atmosphere stay on board...Juggling a lot of instruments is relatively easy. Juggling a lot of instruments this fluidly and artfully, though, is another matter altogether.
Read more... Now, almost two decades later, Lambchop return with their 10th album, OH (Ohio). The musical landscape could hardly be more different.
Read more... "'Slipped Dissolved and Loosed,' the lead single, is one of the most beautiful love songs Wagner has ever written..."
Read more... "'OH (ohio)' closes with a cover of Don Williams' "I Believe in You" that does the countrypolitan veteran more justice with its whisper than most of its C&W contemporaries can accomplish with bellows.
Read more... "...you just cherish the man, and his work, for the illogical, indescribable blips that they are."
Read more... "...Lambchop are able to project an air of intimacy of which few bands are capable."
Read more... Kurt does the Ipod shuffle. Don't miss the comments.
Read more... "His performance was full of wonderful surprises, starting with a Bob Dylan song from Blood on the Tracks called 'You're a Big Girl Now.'...Wagner gave us his solo take on these songs, and we've captured those on video for you here....'National Talk Like a Pirate Day'...'Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr'...'I Believe in You" by Don Williams...'
Read more... Their best work since 2000's still-underrated Nixon, the new album ranges from the ethereal folk of "Slipped, Dissolved, and Loosed" to the gentle seductions of "I'm Thinking of a Number (Between 1 and 2)" to the coda jam of "Popeye"....I caught up with Wagner recently to get his thoughts on Lambchop's new direction.
Read more... Let's see: A release date one month before the presidential showdown, an album named after the electoral-vote caboodle that Diebold "delivered" to Bush in 2004, a cover-art painting called "New Orleans Police Beating", and a concluding rendition of a 1970 jam rhyming "gasoline's in short supply" with "the rising cost of getting by": This Nashville collective has finally up and gone politico, right?
Read more... Lambchop may be evolving, but its capacity for sounding like nothing else remains intact.
Read more... OH (Ohio), Lambchop’s tenth proper album, finds the band in masterful form; Kurt Wagner and his seven accompanists...bring a dazzling sense of grace, balance, and drama to the melodies, and while one senses the size of the ensemble while listening to these songs, there’s no clutter or waste in the arrangements, and Lambchop is able to generate a compelling emotional immediacy no matter how broad their musical canvas.
Read more... "OH (ohio)...preserves their trademarks – lush melodies, hushed sing-speak vocals, magically beguiling lyrics – while they explore new, genre-bending, sonic landscapes.
Read more... "...Wagner maintains his thick, mournful whisper and deadpan sense of humor as he guides a handful of skilled musicians through these lush country/soul marvels."
Read more... When it comes to his music, however, there's a firm self-assuredness lurking beneath the modest exterior.
Read more... It’s Lambchop’s brightest, warmest effort in nearly 10 years, and one that should excite longtime admirers while providing an inviting entry point for new ones.
Read more... OH (ohio), the tenth album in a 14-year recording career, is a glistening, fluid reminder of just how good the band (now stripped down to seven) can be.
Read more... Not unlike the legion of Lambchop albums before it, Ohio (OH) often offers serene, soothing music with surprisingly unsettling lyrics, unique conceptions of an examined, yet otherwise commonplace, life.
Read more... The festive folks at Merge generously drop this peppy track...
Read more... Tomorrow's International Talk Like A Pirate day, everybody...any excuse to pause and appreciate new Lambchop is a good one,
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