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Aw C'mon (Album) by Lambchop

Artist Biography For Lambchop

Lambchop Is An American Alt-Country Band From Nashville Tennessee The Capital Of Country Music. Originally Called Posterchild The Band Which Formed In 1986 Cannot Easily Be Classified Into A Genre And Certainly Not Into That Of Traditional Country Music. The Collective Around Frontman Kurt Wagner Has A Fluid Membership At Times Including As Many 18 Musicians And Is Frequently Associated With Alternative Country. Lambchop’s Music Combines Wryly Ironic Lyrics That Are Complex In Form And Content With Harmonious Tunes And Soulful Background Vocals. It Is Indebted To Folk And Country As Much As To The Smooth Soul Of Barry White Curtis Mayfield Or Marvin Gaye And Can Be Seen As A Fine Exemplification Of Kris Kristofferson’s Famous Line “country Music Is The White Man’s Soul”.

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In 2002 Lambchop's Erstwhile Leader Kurt Wagner Decided He Wanted To Hone What He Saw As His Somewhat Rusty Songwriting Skills. Thus He Set Out To Write A Song A Day And In Lambchop's Case A Tune A Day Has Resulted In This ''butt Load Of Material''. It's A Sprawling Double Package Touted As Two Separate Albums With Distinct Identities And Perhaps The Best Titles Of The Decade So Far . Aw...Is A Coherent Mood Piece Better Experienced As A Whole While No...Is A More Jarring Disparate Set Of Songs That Jostle For Your Attention. Either Way It's A Big Chunk Of Lambchop To Take In One Sitting.
The Band Again Seem To Have Shifted Laterally. New Guitarist William Tyler Is Promoted To A More Prominent Role Even Getting A Namecheck On The Opening Instrumental ''Being Tyler'' Especially On The Second Disc/album. In Fact While The First Disc - Composed As A Whole Score For Murnau's 1927 Silent Movie Sunrise - Returns To The Lusher Stringscapes Courtesy Of Lloyd Barry That Marked Nixon The Second Tends To Be Stripped Back To An Almost Punky Ethic ''Nothing Adventurous Please'' .
The Metaphor Of Music As A Tapestry Woven Of Numerous Thematic And Aural Threads Is An Old And Hackneyed One But That Doesn't Stop It Being A Particularly Succinct Way Of Describing These Albums. Listening To Aw...Is Not Dissimilar To Standing In Front Of An Enormous Tapestry - So Close In Fact That You Can Only See The Various Elements That Make It Up And Never Really Understand The Bigger Picture. But Underneath All The Colours And Textures Of Country Philly Soul And New Wave Attitude Is The Rough Material Of Kurt Wagner's Voice Muttering Darkly About His Life's Minutiae.
Its A Grainy Gruff Staccato Constant That After A Few Tracks Begins To Remind One Of Vic Reeves' Club Singer It's So Clipped Mannered And Shorn Of Musicality. The Curtis Mayfield Falsetto Of Old Has Gone And We're Left To Concentrate On What It Is Exactly That He's Trying To Tell Us. Acertain Lack Of Distinction Between Songs Tends To Make Such Prolonged Exposure Difficult At First But Wagner's Particular Genius Is To Appear Off-Hand And Somehow Still Achieve A Weird Kind Of Profundity. Whether Everyone Will Commit To Such A Large Slice Of Low-Key Nashville Life Is Another Matter...