Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass The Stones

The Stones

It was met with critical acclaim and near Platinum sales

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

The title track is about a thinly disguised ex-lover who calls up out of the blue

before splitting up in 1981

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass The StonesLambchop'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