Fast because I need to squeeze eleven songs into an hour because I just didn't want to trim the playlist, fast because I want to get out into the back garden asap to enjoy the sun, and fast because um... well, just because. I dunno. Fuck you, anyway, this is the one-hundred-and-eighty-first stupid name for one of these damn things I've had to come up with. The names were bound to get worse over time really, weren't they. Anyhow, once this is done, I expect to get a couple of hours out in the garden before buggering off [...]
Wild Weekend is back with issue 65, and all is well with the world. Business as usual then so. Some hippy dippy folk, some wild garage rock, some classic flamenco, some outtake Bob. Let the games begin, and have a wild one. Let's get the show on the road with Peter Perrett's Only Ones, an old fave from hazy postpunk days. I played my vinyl copy of their dark '79 masterpiece Even Serpents Shine so often its grooves were all but worn out, so [...]
"Came Home Late" sounds surreally vintage - more early Microphones (and shitty microphones) than the full-bodied orchestral affairs of recent Lambchop. The song arrives on the band's archival collection Turd Goes Back: Essential Tracks from Secret Secret Sourpuss & Big Tussy , released via Grapefruit Records' subscription series. Though it looks like we'll go the year without an album proper from Kurt Wagner and Co., his KORT project - a collection of forgotten country classics - is also worth a spin while we wait for a follow-up to the immaculate OH (Ohio) . [...]
SIDE A 1. Peter Wolf Crier - Right Away.mp3 2. Apparat - Black Water.mp3 3. Beirut - East Harlem.mp3 4. Washed Out - Amor Fati.mp3 5. Mount Moriah - Lament.mp3 6. Lambchop - Came Home Late.mp3 7. The Black Swans - Mean Medicine.mp3 SIDE B 1. Wilco - I Might.mp3 2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - FFunny FFrends.mp3 [...]
Lambchop's Turd Goes Back: Essential Tracks from Secret Secret Sourpuss & Big Tussy is a collection compiling prolific band-leader Kurt Wagner's "early recordings" from two hard-to-find cassettes. It's out in an edition of 200 LPs by Grapefruit Music Club, the subscription/vinyl-only imprint run by Ba Da Bing's Ben Goldberg and Simon Joyner, a man who's also committed a bunch of pretty, off-kilter tracks to tape. Speaking of the lo-fi '90s, "Came Home Late"'s intimate warping atmosphere reminds me of Shrimper kingpin Dennis Callaci's Paste project. Listen: Read More...
Let's get one thing straight, no matter how fucking busy I am today I will be out in that damned garden by four o'clock this afternoon with a beer in my hand or there will be hell to pay! I am currently working on the Scottish Enlightenment Toad Session, due to go up tomorrow, and it's going to be tight, but dammit the weather in Scotland is this nice so fucking rarely that days like this must be seized, with some determination. Actually, if we can get it to stay this nice for a couple of [...]
60+ more Dylan covers, finishing up our series in which we posted one cover of every single Bob Dylan song.
A discussion with William Tyler about the guitarist's latest album, Behold the Spitit , as well as a few other thoughts including his memories of Charlie Louvin & the similarities he sees between "minimal techno" and folk music.
This is a wonderful little video of the peerless Kurt Wagner of Lampchop playing a desktop concert in Nashville. The gig was for the great NPR . There are a whole series of these videos covering artist from the likes of Vic Chesnutt and Great Lake Swimmers . The set list is as follows: [...]
there arent many seemingly cooler dudes in the rock and roll than lambchop's kurt wagner. everything he does just oozes with a vibe that only a few can attain. that vibe being effortlessness - that is if that can be considered a vibe. anyway, he's teamed up with fellow nashvillian cortney tidwell for a collection of classic country-pop covers under the moniker of kort - kurt/cortney, get it? anyway, the record is called invariable heartache and is due out on city slang on 2.8.11. im listening to it right now, and as you could probably have [...]
top of the evening. the last 72 hours have been kinda hell in the ol' van dyke home. i'll spare ya the gory details, but lets just say that puking, massive shits and body aches have hit all 4 us. fun times, fun times indeed. i found a copy of this very cool comp that was once included in the uk mag, comes with a smile . it seems as if they did it monthly, and all the comps seem to have been of pretty high quality. judging by their site, it may seem like they are down for [...]
A theme this blog returns to from time to time is how the blazes anyone's going to make a living in the music industry these days. Artists can always go out on tour, but what about the labels that release their records? Records that no-one's buying 1 ? And how can anyone do something different to separate them from the ravening herd? One relentlessly pursued idea has been to release records that are more special than before – from the usual "Special Edition" 2 or 3 CD sets, to Brooce Springsteen's "Here's a fuck-off load [...]
I fucking love vinyl. This is a recent fetish, I have to confess, which is perhaps why I am setting about it with the unshakeable passion of a born-again, but whatever the reasons, there it is. I had a lot of vinyl as a kid, primarily because I could afford it, but once I moved onto one of those twin cassette deck plus CD on top thingies at university I thought that was the last I would be seeing of my record collection. The problem is that at the level of Song, by Toad Records, and presumably many, [...]
The top selling albums (both vinyl & CD lists) at Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville.
I've recently rediscovered my love for the animated dark satirical comedy series Monkey Dust. It aired on the BBC for 2 years and 3 seasons from February 2003 until February 2005. I have the first season on DVD (it's the only one available to buy) and i downloaded season 2 and 3 a few years back. Sadly, the death of co-creator Harry Thompson in November 2005 meant that no further seasons would be made. But we've been left with enough dark and crude comedy to keep us laughing away disturbedly at our screens for many years to come. [...]
There's no happy outcome to be had with this album. It's called Invariable Heartache , tracks are named 'Incredibly Lonely' and 'Who's Gonna Love Me Now?' and it is sung in part by Kurt Wagner, the trucker hat wearing, low key everyman from Lambchop . He has teamed up with Cortney Tidwell , a relatively unknown singer in these here parts but a Nashville queen on the country scene due to her lineage. Her grandfather ran Nashville's Chart Records, her mother was country singer Connie Eaton and her father was the producer Cliff Williamson. [...]
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Kurt Wagner und Cortney Tidwell erwecken alte Country-Songs zum Leben. Nach Veröffentlichung des Debüts von Kort gehen die beiden auf Europatour. Hier kommt Kurt, ohne Band und im Duett: Lambchop -Sänger Kurt Wagner hat mit Cortney Tidwell zusammengespannt, einer blutjungen Sängerin aus Nashville, die als seine Tochter durchgehen könnte. Unter dem Kürzel Kort veröffentlichen die beiden ein Album mit rustikalen Duetten. "Invariable Heartaches" ( City Slang ) bietet Herzschmerz im Nashville-Style: Sämtliche Songs sind Covers von Stücken, die in den 60ern und 70ern auf Chart Records erschienen [...]
happy talk like a pirate day! national talk like a pirate day off lambchop's OH (ohio) // i should really talk about lambchop more than just once a year on this sacred holiday Tags: kurt wagner , lambchop , talk like a pirate day
Lambchop lijkt heel even pauze te hebben genomen van het eeuwige toeren. Maar Kurt Wagner zit niet stil. Hij is de studio ingedoken met Cortney Tidwelll . Kurt werkte ook al mee aan Cortney's debuut Don't Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up, dus een samenwerking komt niet helemaal uit de lucht vallen. Later dit jaar komt het album van Cortney en Kurt uit, getiteld Invariable Heartache. Het project van Cortney en Kurt heeft de naam KORT meegekregen. De plaat zal gevuld zijn met covers van niet al te bekende country-songs uit de jaren '60 en [...]
I may only have lived in the Wiltshire village of Seend for about four or five months about ten years ago (seriously, ten?) but the fact that I had no job, nor was able to find one, meant that the music I listened to ended up with an extra resonance. Apart from looking for jobs I didn't know how to find, I spent an inordinate amount of time browsing through copies of Uncut magazine, back before it turned to shit, and buying albums based on how well I liked the songs they chose for their covermount CDs. [...]
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