Lambchop - Rainer On My Parade (2008)

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A tour only cd, with live covers of Elvis Costello, Lenoard Cohen, Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Vic Chesnutt and many others.

Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre, though its music resists easy classification. The music website Allmusic refers to them as “arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s”,

Never a band with a “core” lineup, Lambchop through the years has consisted of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, frontman Kurt Wagner. Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music.

Whatever the style, the characteristic mood of Lambchop’s music is evoked by Wagner’s distinctive songwriting - lyrically subtle and ambiguous, the vocals melodic but understated. Setting this apart from other minimalist songwriters is the large group of backing musicians, with the range of instruments and styles that it brings. Wagner’s songwriting bears similarities with soul musicians such as Barry White, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye as much as with country and folk music, and can be seen to embody Kris Kristofferson’s dictum that “country music is the white man’s soul”.

Tracklist:
01. I'm Glad I Never (Lee Hazelwood)
02. Seemingly Stranded (David Kilgour)
03. Miss Prissy (Vic Chesnutt)
04. Beyond Belief (Elvis Costello)
05. Give Me Your Love (Curtis Mayfield)
06. I've Been Lonely For So Long (Posie Knight & Jerry Weaver)
07. Love Tko (Teddy Pendergrass)
08. Hey, Where's Your Girl (F M Cornog)
09. Why Can't I Touch It (Buzzocks)
10. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Stranglers)
11. This Corrosion (Sisters Of Mercy)
12. Fall Of Troy (Tom Waits)
13. Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonhard Cohen)
14. Give It (X-Press & Kurt Wagner)
15. Where Or When (Rogers And Hart)