Kurt Wagner

KURT WAGNER And His Band LAMBCHOP Released Their Critically Acclaimed 17th Album ‘PUNCHING THE CLOWN’

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Reveries for the laziest of the week

30 August 2026

Band: LAMBCHOP
Who: Nashville‘s crooner, balladeer and
troubadour Kurt Wagner‘s collective.

Originally named Posterchild, the band started their career 40 years ago,
in 1986. With PUNCH THE CLOWN, Wagner & Co just released their 17th LP.


Album artwork

Pitchfork:“Kurt Wagner reinvents his band yet again, this time slimming down to a bare-bones acoustic setup and stripping away the studio artifice. But his storytelling remains as expansive as ever. While Punching the Clown is the most mysterious and disquieting album in Lambchop’s discography, there’s a triumph in it also being their most emotionally direct.”

Sit down, make yourself comfortable
and enjoy the sound of silence.


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Yes You Can Dance To LAMBCHOP – Here’s The Bass-Driven Stroke ‘LITTLE BLACK BOXES’ From Their Upcoming Bible

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New striking strokes

9 September 2022

Band: LAMBCHOP
Who: The brainchild of Nashville singer/songwriter Kurt Wagner
Active: Since 1986 / 16 studio LPs (new one icnluded).

New album: THE BIBLE
Out: 30 September – order info here.

New taster: LITTLE BLACK BOXES

Kurt Wagner: “This song was created in a hot, sweaty, smoky, room on a mid-July evening, filled with six or seven sweaty Minnesotans, four or five laptops, a piano, a smoke machine,
and some laser lighting all throbbing to an undeniably infectious groove, it’s a wonder we all survived. But here we are. Lightning in a beer bottle.”

Yes, you can dance to Lambchop.
Pump up the bass, guys…

LAMBCHOP: All Albums – Facebook

Soul-Stirring – KURT WAGNER And LAMBCHOP 16th Album ‘SHOWTUNES’

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30 May 2021

KURT WAGNER and his band LAMBCHOP
were pretty productive the past few years.

In 2019 new album This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
came out and last year he recorded an LP of covers titled
Trip with his mates, in Nashville.

New album: Showtunes – 16th LP
Released: 21 May 2021

The Guardian (UK newspaper): “Kurt Wagner puts a midi keyboard
centre stage on Lambchop’s expansive, laid-back latest… Showtunes is
indelibly a Lambchop album, a set of songs that references the legacy
of American songwriting from inside a vat of shimmering treacle. The
pace is slow but spacious, giving rise to a pair of instrumental
meditations.” Full review: here . Score: 4/5.

Turn Up The Volume: Listening to Kurt Wagner‘s sonic paintings the
bombastic melodrama of Scott Walker comes to mind, musically that
is, because Walker‘s baritone vox is quite unique. Wagner’s slo-mo
compositions are more accessible, soul-stirring, and less eccentric
although it takes several spins to integrate Wagner‘s world.
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Singles: A Chef’s Kiss / Fuku

– A CHEF’KISS –

– FUKU –

Full album…

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LAMBCHOP: Facebook