Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville – and being seen as a redneck

He is often portrayed as a southern hillbilly savant. But Lambchop's Kurt Wagner is a painter who never planned to be a musician – and is haunted by the death of his close friend Vic ChesnuttKurt Wagner likes the backroads. It drives his wife mad, he says, as we pootle through the suburbs of Nashville in his battered Toyota pickup (a stick shift; they're much cheaper secondhand) – she just wants him to go from A to B along the most direct roads. Thing is, he says, the most direct roads aren'...

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