Love Tractor

Along with luminaries like R.E.M., the B-52's, and Pylon, Love Tractor helped establish the college town of Athens, Georgia as a mecca of alternative music in the early '80s. Mixing jangly guitar figures, exploratory melodies, and propulsive rhythms, they made music that showed it was possible for a band to be smart, arty, and ambitious while generating a groove that would keep the party swinging all night. Though Love Tractor started out as an instrumental combo (as captured on their self-titled 1982 debut), in time they learned to write lyrics as clever and engaging as their...