Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Artwork by the legendary Lydia

Artwork by the legendary Lydia Robertsp

and defiant in others

Maria Vidal and DeBarge

Cardeosa (Paco de Lucía) 6:36

as any other on their label

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Luca Yupanqui Artwork by the legendary LydiaLambchop'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