We like to periodically look back at some of our all-time favorite recordings of years past. On this installment of Old Music Tuesday, All Songs producer and co-host Robin Hilton recalls an artist he hasn't been able to listen to in a long time.

Lambchop find their feet again and deliver a devastatingly moving album dedicated to the memory of Vic Chesnutt.

Das Alternative-Folk-Projekt von Kurt Wagner, Lambchop, präsentiert ein neues Video zum Song "2B2". Der Titel stammt von ihrem, am 24. Februar via City Slang erschienenen, Album " Mr. M ", von dem bereits "If Not I'll Just Die" im Stream erschien ( motor.de berichtete ). Nach " Gone Tomorrow " ist es bisher die zweite Visualisierung, die von der US-amerikanischen Band veröffentlicht wurde und unter der Regie von Zack Spiger entstand. Der Clip ist eine kleine Dokumentation seiner erst kürzlich beendeten Europatour, welche auch außergewöhnliche und bewegende Einblicke hinter die Bühne gewährt. Überzeugt euch an dieser Stelle selbst von den eindrucksvollen Bildern: Lambchop - "2B2 ...

In one sense Athens, Georgia is your typical college town—40,000 students thrown into a town of 100,000 or so people, always in flux, always the same—but in a musical sense the place is extraordinary. You’d have to go 1000 miles west to Austin, or 1000 miles northeast to New York City, to find a music scene that even begins to compare to Athens, a town that’s half the size of Swindon, and one-eighth the size of Nottingham. For better or worse, the history of Athens music—The B-52’s, Pylon, R.E.M., Oh-Ok ...

Cuando Vic Chesnutt murió, a Kurt Wagner se le cayó la música de las manos. Han pasado ya algo más de dos años desde que el de Florida decidiese acabar con su vida, después de casi tres décadas en una silla de ruedas tras sufrir un accidente de tráfico a los 18. Al recordarle, a [...]

As previously reported, R.E.M., Brute (Widespread Panic featuring Vic Chesnutt), The Whigs, Patterson Hood, Dead Confederate, Futurebirds and many other Athens, GA-based artists recently contributed songs to a benefit album that will support disabled veterans. On Apr...

Photo: Neko Case Alternative country singer Kelly Hogan is set to return with a new album.  The June 5th release of I Like To Keep Myself In Pain  will be her first for Anti . This time around Hogan taps another impressive list of songwriters as sources for her material. Listen to her version of Vic Chesnutt's "We Can't Have Nice Things" here . Here's the track list (with songwriters): Continue reading »

Photo by Neko Case Kelly Hogan: "We Can't Have Nice Things" Stream Kelly Hogan , Chicago songstress and the woman responsible for the beautiful harmonies in Neko Case songs, announced a new album stacked with A-list songwriters. On June 5, Anti- will release I Like to Keep Myself in Pain , which features songs written for Hogan by the late Vic Chesnutt, the Magnetic Fields, Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Catherine Irwin of Freakwater, the Handsome Family, Robyn Hitchcock, Gabriel Roth of the Dap-Kings/Daptone Records, and others. The album also features accompaniment from Booker T. Jones ...

Album No. 11 from Nashville's self-proclaimed "most fucked-up country band" opens with a bed of tense string lusciousness straight out of a '50s Douglas Sirk Hollywood melodrama. Then the camera focuses in on a late-night joint, wherein Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner is painting a picture from his corner barstool: "Don't know what they fuck they talk about," he sighs wearily. "Maybe blowing kisses, maybe blowing lines / Really, what difference does it make… But the strings sound good, maybe add some flutes." Though summoned, those flutes never kick in. Things get pretty weird anyway. There's a parallel universe ...

Lambchop Mr. M Merge Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Another memorable trip with Lambchop! Album Review: Kurt Wagner has been in the business with Lambchop now for nearly two decades and on the group's 11th album Mr. M he provides another record of love, loss and surviving everyday life. If you have followed the band over the years you already have heard this gradual progression from their earlier more Americana days into this current incarnation of Wagner's classic crooner style supported by a very talented ensemble of musicians. It clearly is the maturing of Lambchop that has made ...

Depuis la sortie fin 2008 de "OH ”, un album presque pop et fort réussi, Lambchop n'avait pas trop donné de nouvelles. A tel point qu'on se demandait si le groupe existait encore, ou si son leader Kurt Wagner avait décidé de jeter l'éponge après une quinzaine d'années bien remplies et artistiquement proches du sans-faute. Très touché par la disparition de son ami Vic Chesnutt, l'homme à la

Nashville staple Lambchop’s latest, Mr. M, travels through each of its 11 tracks leisurely. It could be because this release marks the morph-happy group’s eleventh release, or it could be because mainstay Kurt Wagner just needed to deal with some serious curveballs in life, the most serious of those being the 2009 suicide of his close friend and fellow South-based songwriter Vic Chesnutt. In loving memory, Lambchop dedicated Mr. M to Chesnutt, bundling pastoral psalms of sadness enjoyed only sans haste. The best example of that pacing comes five tracks in, with instrumental “Gar.” It pulses lovely and ...

Mr. M is Lambchop’s first album since OH (Ohio), which is now four years old. They are one of the most consistently extraordinary bands currently producing music, so it comes as no surprise that their new record is entirely worth the wait. It is a touching album which is dedicated to the late Vic Chesnutt,

Can creativity help mend a tortuous and fragmented soul? When everything crumbles, surely it only makes sense to begin rebuilding. After the death of his friend and musical peer Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop’s talismanic Kurt Wagner decided to pick up his paint brushes in an attempt to haul himself out of an existential fog which lay heavy on his delicate mindset. Mr. M will never ease Wagner’s pains of grievance, but Vic Chesnutt’s memory can be heard within this elegantly moving work of art. Lambchop have always been a difficult band to pin down. Unsurprising really for a ...

Lambchop - ‘Gone Tomorrow’ Mr. M, the latest album by Nashvillian champions Lambchop, will be released early next week on City Slang. As cited before, the record is a tribute to Kurt  Wagner’s friendship with the late, great Vic  Chesnutt. ‘Gone Tomorrow’ marries the band’s alt-country heritage with an orchestrated ramble and the soul that they have always projected. The video by Zach Spiger is an inside look into the world of wrestling in small town America as the band jam behind the scenes - oddly heartening.  [ vimeo.com/zackspiger ]