Lambchop - I Hope You're Sitting Down (Reissue) (1994)
Artist: Lambchop
Title: I Hope You're Sitting Down
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: City Slang
Genre: Country Rock, Indie Rock, Alt Country
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:12:05
Total Size: 319/577 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: I Hope You're Sitting Down
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: City Slang
Genre: Country Rock, Indie Rock, Alt Country
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:12:05
Total Size: 319/577 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. Begin (Kurt Wagner) 3:30
02. Betweemus (Kurt Wagner) 5:26
03. Soaky in the Pooper (Kurt Wagner / Donald Charles Book) 4:16
04. Because You Are the Very Air He Breathes (Kurt Wagner) 6:11
05. Under the Same Moon (Kurt Wagner) 4:55
06. I Will Drive Slowly (Kurt Wagner) 4:44
07. Oh, What a Disappointment (Kurt Wagner) 4:26
08. Hellmouth (Kurt Wagner) 2:52
09. Bon Soir, Bon Soir (Kurt Wagner) 3:32
10. Hickey (Kurt Wagner) 5:51
11. Breath Deep (Kurt Wagner) 4:13
12. So I Hear You’re Moving (Kurt Wagner) 3:47
13. Let’s Go Bowling (Kurt Wagner) 5:29
14. What Was He Wearing? (Kurt Wagner) 3:18
15. Cowboy on the Moon (Kurt Wagner) 2:40
16. Or Thousands of Prizes (Kurt Wagner) 4:53 (City Slang edition only)
17. The Pack-Up Song (Kurt Wagner) 1:53
Line-up::
John Delworth: Farfisa organ, Hammond M-3organ
Deanna Varagona: vocals, alto sax, cello, banjo
Paul Niehaus: National lap steel guitar, trombone, vocals
Allen Lowrey: percussion, drums
Jonathan Marx: Vito clarinet, alto sax, vocals
Steve Goodhue: the drums, mandolin, ukulele, keyboard strings/harp, banjo
C. Scott Chase: open-end wrenches, percussion
Bill Killebrew: guitar
Mark Trovillion: the bass
Kurt Wagner: 1929 Gibson L-3 guitar, vocals
*Mike Doster: string bass on "Soaky in the Pooper"
Produced by Pus E. Wounds
Artwork by Brad Talbott and Kurt Wagner
A mix of post-modernism and straight (not roots) country music. The spooky organ fills, saxes, clarinets, and cello make this sound at times like the Art Ensemble of Chicago-as-country-band. Kurt Wagner's morose, resigned lyrics and dry, almost spoken delivery can get hard to take over the course of the hour-plus disc. "Soaker in the Pooper," a song about suicide in the bathroom, gave Wagner almost instant notoriety, and many of the other songs deal with similarly downbeat matters, although usually not as directly.