Although based in Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music, Lambchop 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 soulâ€.
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(Kurt Wagner)
and now it's getting darker
or so it would seem
and if out of this comes nothing
then maybe nothing is what I mean
raise a dusty eyelid
to a window in the south
see that part of Europe
has discovered my big fat mouth
notice on completion
this strange change has occurred
small pieces of your lung
strewn about the spoken word
ooh, the goofiness we can create
understand or understate
let's turn back before it's too late
so that we could appreciate
brittle core the correspond
the society of living alone ...