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Artist Spotlight: Corb Lund

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Country music and Canada go together more than what most people think, and when Canada resident Corb Lund played the Hooey party in Las Vegas, I couldnโ€™t wait to catch a moment with him.ย 

We got to the site a bit early as Corb was finishing up soundcheck in the fantastic venue called Brooklyn Bowl and were then escorted up to a room that was eclectic in nature and Corb was sitting on the couch, 4-H cloverleaf t-shirt on, with his leather and cowhide encased guitar picking away. It couldnโ€™t have been more fitting.

We started talking about how running into people that were not generally in the country scene were calling him a new artist, as many people donโ€™t know that he has 9 albums under his belt already. Corb said,

โ€œItโ€™s funny, cause, I mean itโ€™s a slow burn which is kind of cool in a way because itโ€™s a real organic build our career our audience isnโ€™t really based on a bunch of media overload and just based on playing for people and word of mouth. Itโ€™s very organic. Itโ€™s kind of DIY. Its kind of like Chris Ledoux did it, I think.โ€

To that, we talked about some of the songs on his albums. I said how my first introduction to Corbโ€™s music was his song โ€œBible on the Dashโ€ with Hayes Carll. And Corb had a funny story about how that song came about.

โ€œI write songs slowly. Some guys sit on it one afternoon I just theyโ€™re very slow. Itโ€™s a very slow process for me. So I had the verse and chorus for years and I couldnโ€™t. I was stumped. And then Hayes and I were just drinking beer when I showed him, and he said well we just do this. and I was like, yeah, why donโ€™t I just do that, (chuckling) and then we finished it in an hour.โ€ย 

And with a song like that I just had to know, where do you get your inspiration? Or does it just come out of the blue? To which Corb replied, โ€œI mean probably two-thirds of my stuff is sort of family history western stuff, and the other third is off the wall stuff.โ€ Depending on if you see him with a full band or acoustic show determines if you get to hear the stories behind those songs. He elaborated,

โ€œPeople seem to like to hear the stories behind the songs, and how you write them, and why you wrote them. Especially when a lot of my stuff is of family history and ancestry stuff. So thereโ€™s lots to talk about. So both shows are good.โ€ He concurred.

(photo credit: Trish Badger)

Which lead us into talking about just how he got into this country music scene โ€œwhen I was a teenager I got into the Rock and Roll music so when I was in my 20s I had a heavy rock band.โ€ Corb said. โ€œWe had almost a cult following. I think that kind of permanently affected my songwriting because. Iโ€™m sort of a blend of traditional western stuff mixed with kind of quirky, weird stuff…keeping Western weird.โ€ he chuckled.

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Corb just wrapped up his โ€œNo Rest for the Westโ€ tour, and no matter what setting you are in when you see a Corb Lund show you will know that he is having a great time. Which is excellent because his stops have been really gaining momentum. That isnโ€™t the only thing gaining momentum though; Corb Lund is set to release Cover Your Tracks on September 13th via New West Records. The 8-song EP is a collection of unexpected cover songs previously recorded by AC/DC, Nancy Sinatra, Billy Joel, Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Willie Nelson & Ray Charles, and Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.ย  It was produced by Lund and John Evans, and features guest appearances from the critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Hayes Carll and Canadian Western music legend Ian Tyson alongside Lundโ€™s band The Hurtin Albertans: Kurt Ciesla, Grant Siemens, and Brady Valgardson.ย 

Lund states, โ€œEarlier this year I recorded a bunch of cover songs by some of my favourite artists and writers from various periods in my life, mostly for fun and to get them out of my system.โ€ He says, โ€œMany of the songs weโ€™ve been playing live for years. Being re-inspired by this stuff and getting back in the studio to cut it was a great warm-up for making another record of my own songs, which Iโ€™m working hard on writing as we speak. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy listening to these old favourites as much as we enjoyed recording them.โ€

Corb Lundโ€™s Cover Your Tracks will be available on compact disc and across digital retailers and is available for pre-order now via New West Records. Lund is entering the studio this summer to record his forthcoming full-length record featuring the singerโ€™s signature brand of โ€œagriculturally tragicโ€ wit and Western themes. The album will be released in 2020.ย 

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