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Bob Boilen's Week In Live Music, 4/8/17

April 8, 2017 • Check out the All Songs Considered host's photos from the shows he saw this week, including shots of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Peter Silberman and Lambchop.

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Lambchop's Kurt Wagner: Tiny Desk Concert

October 8, 2008 • Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. When Wagner visited us, he came alone, with just a guitar and a good-natured sense of humor.

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Review: Lambchop, 'FLOTUS'

October 27, 2016 • Kurt Wagner's ambition has taken a hard left on the Nashville group's new album, which ditches Lambchop's typical organic feel for something far more progressive.

Archival Filmmaker Bill Morrison Meets Lambchop: Watch Their Film

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Archival Filmmaker Bill Morrison Meets Lambchop: Watch Their Film

September 14, 2016 • Filmmaker Bill Morrison is known for telling stories using archival footage. Now he's teamed up with contemporary composer Kurt Wagner and his band Lambchop for the new film The Dockworker's Dream.

New Mix: Bon Iver, The White Stripes, Lambchop, More

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New Mix: Bon Iver, The White Stripes, Lambchop, More

August 16, 2016 • Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton return from break with new music by some of their all-time favorite artists, including unexpected sounds from Bon Iver and a previously unreleased White Stripes song.

New Mix: Bon Iver, The White Stripes, Lambchop, More

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Paul McCartney and The Fireman, Oasis, More

October 20, 2008 • New music from Paul McCartney, Oasis, Lambchop, Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power, and more.

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The Year Ahead: 2004

January 12, 2004 • On our first program of the new year we look ahead to some of the most anticipated albums of 2004, including a special sneak preview of an upcoming release from Norah Jones.

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The Best Music of 2002

December 30, 2002 • Putting this list together and hearing this music again was great fun. This year on All Songs Considered we featured more than 120 artists and listened to thousands of others.

The Best Music of 2002

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The Best of ASC

July 22, 2002 • On this episode, we dig through our archives to bring you some of our favorite artists and albums featured on All Songs Considered during the past two years.

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Blue Man Group, Lambchop, Built to Spill

March 18, 2002 • The Blue Man Group; Scotland's Shooglenifty; the Loombas and Persian love poems; Nashville's strangest group: Lambchop; great unknown, Amelia White; and the dreamy guitar of Built to Spill.

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Ready To Rumble: Lambchop's Acoustic Bodyslam

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Ready To Rumble: Lambchop's Acoustic Bodyslam

February 15, 2012 • The new video takes an inside look at a wrestling match and finds the humanity in the spectacle.

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Lambchop: Americana, Bound For 'Ohio'

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April 8, 2009 • Kurt Wagner's music represents an offbeat marriage of country, soul and avant-garde pop, sprinkled over gently fingerpicked guitar. His understated melodies and ambiguous lyrics are in abundant supply on Lambchop's OH (Ohio), which is upbeat and soulful in its irreverence.

Web-Only Outtake: Lambchop Performs 'You're A Big Girl Now'

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Radiohead, The Mountain Goats, Lisa Germano

July 20, 2006 • Reggae versions of songs by Radiohead; Artful lo-fi rock from The Mountain Goats; Country lounge by Nashville's Lambchop; Political blues: World Saxophone Quartet and more.

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Music Review: Two 'C'mon' Records from Lambchop

March 31, 2004 • Nashville-based band Lambchop has two new albums out, Aw C'mon, and No, You C'mon. Both CDs rely on lush guitar rhythms and a sultry sound, combined with the unmistakable baritone of bandleader Kurt Wagner. David Greenberger has a review.

Music Review: Two 'C'mon' Records from Lambchop

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First Listen: Lambchop, 'Mr. M'

February 12, 2012 • Mr. M is the sound of a downcast dreamer who, 11 albums and nearly 20 years into his career with Lambchop, is just beginning to find what he's wanted all along.

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Singled Out: Lambchop's 'If Not I'll Just Die'

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New Music From From Lower Dens, Lambchop, Leonard Cohen And More

January 17, 2012 • This week, All Songs celebrates Robin Hilton's return to the mic with its first episode of all-new music this year.

New Music From Leonard Cohen, Lower Dens, Lambchop, And More

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