Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Green Grass of Home (1967)

Green Grass of Home (1967)

One of the two seminal 1970 lps from the Grateful Dead (the other being Workingman's Dead) dropping the lysergic excesses of the previous albums and focusing on beautifully relaxed

as any other on their label

and defiant in others

Some Kind Of Monster

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Green Grass of Home (1967)Lambchop'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