Much has been said and written about 'Nixon', the album that broke Nashville's finest little big band into the mainstream in the UK. It was album of the month left right and center and album of the year in Uncut, if we remember it correctly. Maybe not. Still, it's sophisticated mix of alt.country, white man's Soul music, gospel choirs and thick use of strings and Kurt Wagner's last chance to lay down some falsetto vocals before age, smoking and whiskey caught up with him were a sensation.

Nixon was released in 2000 and immediately enshrined by the British music press. Uncut named it album of the year, Mojo ranked it 10th, and Q was still doing their lists alphabetically. The band sold out the 2,500-person Royal Festival Hall (home of the London Philharmonic), and a Zero 7 remix of “Up With People”—the album’s climactic track—made the singles chart. The NME called Nixon “near to perfect” and the Guardian said that the band was “reinventing American music.” - Pitchfork, Best New Reissue
 

1. The Old Gold Shoe 
2. Grumpus 
3. You Masculine You 
4. Up With People 
5. Nashville Parent 
6. What Else Could It Be? 
7. The Distance From Her To There 
8. The Book I Haven't Read 
9. The Petrified Florist 
10. The Butcher Boy

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