Lambchop - Mr. M

“I’ve been doing this for a while, always with the same basic notion that I am sharing through songs – secretly, intimately – my ideas with my friends and loved ones.” Kurt Wagner, November 2011

MR. M is Lambchop’s eleventh album on City Slang and documents the band at its best, it encapsulates one of the most profound moments in Lambchop history. Kurt Wagner turned away from music and picked up his brushes to paint his way out of a funk that followed the premature death of friend Vic Chesnutt, who the band backed on 1998’s The Salesman and Bernadette. Incidentally the paintings, thickly layered black and white portraits forming a series called Beautillion Millitaire 2000, feature on the album sleeve and throughout the full artwork- The resulting album stretches out as sonically as promised. It was recorded at Nevers’s Nashville Beech House studio cum bungalow with the usual core of musicians- Scott Martin (drums), Matt Swanson (bass), Ryan Norris (guitar, organ), Tony Crow (piano), William Tyler (guitar). Guests include original cofounder Jonathan Marx, Cortney Tidwell (who shared vocals on 2010’s KORT project) and fiddler Billy Contreras (who has worked with all from Charlie Louvin to Laura Cantrell) - spectacular string arrangements shared between Peter Stopschinski and Mason Neely.

TRACKLISTING:

CD
1. If Not I'll Just Die 2. 2B2 3. Gone Tomorrow 4. Mr. Met 5. Gar 6. Nice Without Mercy 7. Buttons 8. The Good Life (is wasted) 9. Kind Of 10. Betty's Overture 11. Never My Love

DVD BONUS DISC:
5 Live tracks from slang20 festival 2010 at Berlin’s Admiralspalast & Track by Track interview with Kurt Wagner.

VINYL:
A1. If Not I'll Just Die A2. 2B2 A3. Gone Tomorrow
B4. Mr. Met B5. Gar B6. Nice Without Mercy
C7. Buttons C8. The Good Life (is wasted) C9. Kind Of
D10. Betty's Overture D11. Never My Love

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