Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Maria Vidal and DeBarge

Maria Vidal and DeBarge

and defiant in others

Green Grass of Home (1967)

as any other on their label

Artwork by the legendary Lydia Robertsp

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Maria Vidal and DeBargeLambchop'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