{"product_id":"lambchop-punching-the-clown-lp","title":"* PREORDER * LAMBCHOP - Punching The Clown LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e* PREORDER * expected to arrive for 21st Aug release\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available on CD (preorder recommended)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo hear Kurt Wagner tell it, Punching the Clown began as a ghost hunt. After hearing a song on the radio while driving one night — “a minimal single chord strummed banjo and a small group of voices” — he went looking for it and failed. In his pursuit, he discovered “lined out singing,” a form of acapella call-and-response gospel singing that began in Scotland in the 1800s and became a root of American gospel and country music when Scottish immigrants settled in Appalachia. The song, typically a hymn, is led by a clerk, who begins the verse alone before a choir swells up to accompany them on the rest of the line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLined out singing was born out of necessity — not every member of a given congregation could read, so the clerk’s voice spurred the choir’s memory of what came next in the hymn — but its effect is profound: a haunting, elegiac means of interpretation in which you can hear not only the words and what they mean, but what those words meant to each person singing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2SUuOs2K4Y?si=Z5s5IY49ElL2V1jL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"City Slang","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":44656792469546,"sku":"LAMBCHOP - Punching The Clown LP-1","price":54.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":44656792502314,"sku":"LAMBCHOP - Punching The Clown CD","price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1273\/6111\/files\/lambchop-punchingtheclown.jpg?v=1785994552","url":"https:\/\/www.strangeworldrecords.com.au\/products\/lambchop-punching-the-clown-lp","provider":"Strangeworld Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}