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Lambchop is Nashville's most
f*****-up country band. They aren't influenced by country music--they
influence country music. Their music is even smoother than Del
Reeves, and they have more musicians than Tanya
Tucker's bathroom antics: two guitars, one bass, two drummers,
pedal steel guitar, open-end wrenches, lacquer-thinner can, organ,
xylophone, euphonium, trombone, baritone sax, trumpet, clarinet,
bongoes, resonating metal square, and a vanilla extract bottle.
Although they strive to be truly Nashville, they are virtually ignored
in Nashville. In a town where every No. 1 single is recognized with
a splashy Billboard overlooking the offices on Music Row, they labor
quietly and diligently. Chet Atkins
may have turned his back on country music, but Lambchop haven't.
As they discreetly continue to develop the new Nashville sound in
recording studios all across "Music City," they know the
day will come when the moms and dads of country music will fess
up and recognize their illegitimate children as the true inheritors
of country music.
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