"Made in Canada" is the closing and crowning achievement of Bachman's latest Merge -- the revitalized follow-up to 1993's Any Road. Ironically, a collaboration with Neil Young was also Any Road's highlight, and "Made in Canada" sounds like the fully-mature follow-up to that disc's "Prairie Town." Young's inspired, live-off-the-floor knife-slashes here (which Bachman himself compares to "Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey") equal any string-bending he's done to date. The pair thu...   [ read more ]

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As Merge fans know, Lambchop has been on the label since 1993, releasing a string of widely varied but consistently brilliant records. But the live Lambchop experience has been somewhat elusive in the US. While the band has toured the gilded theaters of Europe and elsewhere for nearly two decades, the Nashville group has seldom toured their home country. Kurt Wagner has performed solo on a recent Yo La Tengo tour, and Lambchop supported their recent album, (OH) Ohio, as an intimately stripped-down quintet ...   [ read more ]

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