Lambchop Concert Film Is Ready to Roll

View trailer below. Lambchop Live at XX Merge audio + concert film released digitally this week.

By Blurt Staff

Lambchop has been on Merge since 1993, releasing a string of widely varied but consistently brilliant records. But the live Lambchop experience has been somewhat elusive in the U.S.  While the band has toured Europe and elsewhere for nearly two decades, the Nashville group has seldom toured their home country. Kurt Wagner has performed solo on a recent Yo La Tengo tour, and Lambchop supported their recent album, (OH) Ohio, as an intimately stripped-down quintet in a couple of short bursts over the last year. 

To help celebrate Merge's 20th Anniversary the band showed up in one of their largest lineups in recent memory - 11-strong, including multiple guitars, keyboards, piano, and a horn section. Lambchop performing live is always a powerful proposition, but on this night they started quietly with "I Will Drive Slowly" from their first album (I Hope You're Sitting Down) and accelerated from there, each song seemingly faster and more intensely played than the last, building to a furious finale of "Up With People" and an epic "Give It."

Lambchop's set at XX Merge was professionally recorded and filmed and is available at the Merge site: www.mergerecords.com.

Lambchop - Live at XX Merge tracklisting:

1. Introduction (Jon Wurster)
2. I Will Drive Slowly
3. The New Cobweb Summer
4. Grumpus
5. Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr.
6. What Else Could It Be?
7. Joke (Tony Crow)
8. National Talk Like a Pirate Day
9. Hey, Where's Your Girl?
10. Your Fucking Sunny Day
11. Up With People
12. Give It

Lambchop - Live at XX Merge
Recorded by Nick Peterson
Mixed by Mac McCaughan
FOH Engineer: Mark Luecke

A Show Cobra Film
Directed by Matt Boyd
Produced by Jason Ross

Lambchop - Give It from Merge Records on Vimeo.