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Not so much a replication, but more of a study in reclamation. Kurt Wagner
INVARIABLE HEARTACHE is an album inspired by a shared love of Nashville and its musical traditions. Lambchops Kurt Wagner a long time champion of the citys history and charms and Cortney Tidwell whose family have, for decades, played a significant part in the citys (country) musical life are both
fervent admirers of the music that has emerged from the city.
It was an early collaboration on Cortneys Dont Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up album that led to the two of them performing together at Nashville club The Basement in the summer of 2008. Such was the crowds overwhelming response that evening that the idea of a duets album was born, and though work didnt begin for well over a year the concept was never forgotten. It was discussion about Cortneys family history, however, that led them to the Chart Records catalogue, a label run by Cortneys grandfather Slim Williamson, A&Red later by her father Cliff Williamson, and for which her mother Connie Eaton also recorded.
The result of their subsequent fascination with what they discovered on dusty forgotten vinyl is an album that pays tribute to art of the duet and the classic songwriting that lay behind many of the albums and singles released by the label, a tribute on a grander scale to the forgotten sounds of Music City USA. Keeping it in the family, INVARIABLE HEARTACHE was produced by Kurt Wagner, recorded by Cortneys husband Todd Tidwell at Music Rows Starstruck Studios and by Roger Moutenot (who produced much of Lambchops last album) at Hap Town, and mixed by Mark Nevers, whose association with Lambchop goes back to its earliest days and who has since become one of Nashvilles goto
guys. With 11 songs taken from the Chart Records catalogue, and one more recorded by Cortneys mother for ABC Dunhill, this is a project that, from start to end, comes right from the heart.
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