Punching The Clown AwaitingStock The 2002 recipient of the

The 2002 recipient of the prestigious John Steinbeck Award (honouring those exemplifying the famed writer's environmental and solcial ideals)

Afterhrs (Niall Horan

Removable mic boom

Want to slow things down

It includes two thundering tracks — “Cocaine Eyes” and “Heavy Love”— not available on any other album

Punching The Clown AwaitingStock The 2002 recipient of theLambchop'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