A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.

Nixon was released in early 2000. It was Lambchops fifth LP, and the first record of any kind that the band had released in over a year, after a half-decade in which scarcely three months went by without some kind of new Lambchop music. Starting with the swell of horns in the middle of album opener The Old Gold Shoe, Nixon glides easily from one unexpected grace note to the next, peppering in funk, R&B, gospel, country, vintage folkand integrating them all, not presenting them discretely. Lambchop has always taken its Nashville origins seriously, making use of the wide variety of talented musicians who live and work in Music City.

Nixon drew Lambchops usual raft of mixed reviews and modest sales statesidethough the positive reviews were more positive than ever, as many critics put the album on their year-end best-of lists, and fans whod long loved the band felt more comfortable evangelizing