Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Creamtastic Lambchopped and Screwed: Why Kurt Wagner Isn't a Linear Songwriter
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM
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Lambchop (not Porkchop) frontman Kurt Wagner recently sat down to share some words with the folks over at Express Night Out. In the interview, Wagner provides his thoughts on his cover of Don Williams' "I Believe in You" off of (OH) ohio as well as his own particularly unique songwriting process:
I found that as a kid growing up, I thought that stuff [traditional narrative] was sort of formulaic. I have a formula, but it's more about trying to find a way to keep it interesting for me also to make something that I hadn't thought of before...With that song ["National Talk Like a Pirate Day"] I was writing about other things. I'm not sure what they were. I was looking up and there was a little photograph of a small child and I started describing that picture...It ended up being about her, not how people talk like pirates. That probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but it makes sense to me.In keeping with our running theme on the Cream this week, Wagner also made mention of what it means (to him) being in a Nashville-based band:
Well, [gaining respect from the traditional Nashville music establishment] wasn't really one of my goals or anything. I don't feel the need. I grew up here. I'm stuck with it. Lambchop played a lot around Nashville early on, we befriended other bands from out of town and they would want us to open up for them. Once we started touring a lot outside of Nashville then we started playing less and less here in town. It's a fairly rare occasion that we play around here.Check out Kurt's uber-intimate performance of "You're a Big Girl Now" after the jump. Good stuff.
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