Lambchop is an American alternative country band formed in Nashville in 1986. Released on Merge Records, its first album, Secret Secret Sourpuss, appeared in 1990.
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- Punching the Clown (2026)New
- Formed
- 1986 · Nashville
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- Merge Records
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Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is an American band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 1986. Frontman and primary songwriter Kurt Wagner has remained the project's sole constant member across multiple line-up changes. The band's current line-up also includes Andrew Broder (keyboards), Ryan Olson (brass, woodwind), C.J. Camerieri (brass, woodwind) and Tim Purnell (drums). Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre. Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music.
Across Lambchop's forty years, there have been several significant collaborators, with the project mostly consisting of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, Kurt Wagner. Former longtime members and collaborators include guitarists Paul Niehaus, Mark Nevers, William Tyler and Alex McManus; bass guitarists Marc Trovillion and Matt Swanson; keyboardists John Delworth and Tony Crow; multi-instrumentalists Deanna Varagona and Jonathan Marx; and drummers Allen Lowrey, Charles Scott Chase, Paul Burch and Scott Martin. Other former collaborators include drummer Andy Stack and Yo La Tengo's James McNew.
The band has released seventeen albums across its career, with its most recent, Punching the Clown, released in August 2026 to widespread critical acclaim.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Lambchop (band)” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- Secret Secret Sourpuss 1990
- Big Tussie 1992
- I Hope You're Sitting Down 1994
- How I Quit Smoking 1995
- Thriller 1997
- What Another Man Spills 1998
- Nixon 2000
- Pet Sounds Sucks 2002
- Is a Woman 2002
- Mono 2003
- Nashville Does Dallas 2004
- Boo Fucking Who? 2004
- No You C’mon 2004
- Aw C’mon 2004
- The Black Sessions 2004
- Sunrise 2004
- Succulence 2006
- Damaged 2006
- OH (Ohio) 2008
- Live at XX Merge 2009
- Mr. M 2012
- FLOTUS 2016
- Lambchop.4 2019
- This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) 2019
- Trip 2020
- Showtunes 2021
- The Bible 2022
- Punching the Clown 2026