Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass before splitting up in 1981

before splitting up in 1981

The Stones

Tweedy invited the band to record at the storied Loft in Chicago

Experience the world of a curious boy

It was met with critical acclaim and near Platinum sales

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass before splitting up in 1981Lambchop's seventeenth album Punching the Clown finds Kurt Wagner returning to first principles. Sparked by a late night radio encounter with an unidentified gospel recording, Wagner fell deep into the world of "lined out singing" a centuries old Scots Appalachian call and response tradition in which a lone clerk leads a choir through hymns, word by unadorned word. That spirit of raw, communal voice shapes every moment of Punching the Clown: Wagner