Five Songs, 6/16/2022

Lambchop, “Up With People”

A difficult question to answer is “what is the best Lambchop record?” Part of the problem here is that they’ve evolved gently over their existence, but don’t really have recognizable periods where one could really say that that style is your favorite. Another problem is their consistency, where the albums are pretty uniformly excellent, but there’s not really noticeable jumps and dips. It’s all a big, good plateau.

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Five Songs, 10/30/2021

Margo Price, “This Town Gets Around”

This album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, came out in 2016 on Jack White’s label, and is very much a throwback. It wears its inspiration on its sleeve, with Loretta Lynn’s influence heard everywhere in the music and of course the album title’s homage. Trying to live up to Lynn is of course a massive challenge, but Price does well. There’s nothing especially adorned about this album, it’s just very straightforward country, but it’s a lovely record.

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