Cortney Tidwell and Kurt Wagner make for the perfect pairing.
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True, you won't find anything close to avant- garde here - but as an homage to a little-known label, it's admirable.
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Wagner's hesitant delivery is poignantly underscored by Tidwell's more emotive phrasing, while the arrangements of neat picking and weeping fiddle are applied with customary understatement.
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The heartbeat was thumping hard and loud at a little dive bar off of Charlotte that goes by the name of Betty's. The heartbeat was beating with Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell's KORT, and it was beating strong.
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For those who loved Raising Sand, the collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, this is highly recommended as a companion album.
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It's all a beautiful reminder of how country songwriting, at its best, is emotionally acute, graceful and sublime.
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Invariable Heartache's songs are covers almost all sourced from the now-deceased Chart records, a Nashville country label ran by Tidwell's grandfather. The result is charming enough to warrant their plucking from country ditty heaven.
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Of all the paradoxes, inequities and ironies that govern the music industry, this one is pretty hard to top. Two of the most acclaimed Nashville artists of recent years - one the leader of an internationally revered indie-rock group, the other a compelling vocalist who comes from country music lineage - have made a stunning new record almost literally in their own backyard.
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While Kurt Wagner's role as bandleader in seminal soul/country/folk collective Lambchop sees him deal in multiple shades of deep-orange warmth, Cortney Tidwell's solo career is often shaded by a kind of icy detachment; an engaging, beautiful coldness. At first glance they might not seem the most natural fit for an album of country takes from the 60s and 70s, but look a little deeper and Invariable Heartache makes perfect sense.
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Nashville's Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell have teamed up to record an album of country duets inspired by vintage label Chart Records. The Quietus has the exclusives on their new video and a mini documentary, and chats to the two about its evolution.
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As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. Well no more: Kort represents a happier alternative: a honey-coated tribute to ye olde country and western, courtesy of Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, solo chanteuse Cortney Tidwell and lashings of slide guitar and whiskey-pickled heartbreak.
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That feature, currently titled When the World's on Fire....A bilingual comedy-drama about a Guatemalan immigrant, it features a cast of more than 70 and was shot on widescreen 35mm all over Nashville, including the makeshift shelters of Tent City.
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Project also features John Turell, Ed Harcourt, Danielle Moore, Candy Staton, Cerys Matthews, Sarah Cracknell, Edwyn Collins and many more...
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"...the results are in and it's unanimous - Lambchop stole the show at XX Merge....Kurt Wagner led this 11-piece version of the band - complete with a three-piece horn section - through a perfectly-paced hour-long set that featured a bunch of total pros completely in sync and firing on every cylinder."
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"...it was Lambchop's Friday night performance, beating Spoon's headlining set to every single soul-power punch, that proclaimed the strength of Merge's two decades best."
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