Corb Lund Returns with new Album: Agricultural Tragic

CORB LUND RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM, AGRICULTURAL TRAGIC, OUT APRIL 24 

Corb Lund is set to release his first album of original material in five years, Agricultural Tragic, on April 24 (Pre-order//save/add). The album’s first single, “90 Seconds Of Your Time,” is available today (stream/download).

Along with today’s album news, Lund announces a 25-date Canadian tour, set to begin April 27 in Victoria, BC. A full list of dates can be found below. The show will be bigger and better than ever, with newly added production elements, as well as VIP packages including a meet and greet and acoustic performance, available at corblund.com. 

Of the new music, Lund says,

“I worked really hard on this album—harder than I’ve ever worked before. This time around I took my time and wrote more songs, rehearsed more with the band, and explored sounds much more deeply. It took some time, but I’m really proud of this one and I’m excited to finally be able to share it.” 

Agricultural Tragic is a record with instantly detectible depth and energy. Its title draws a taut thread backwards in time through Waylon, Williams — even before Robert Johnson — to that pre-fenced and perilous era of exchange between untamed infinity and we humans striving to make this land ours, using heart, hope and horses. 

The album’s title, Agricultural Tragic, is also the name of Lund’s self-applied subgenre. While examining his own body of work, he noticed and wryly named this larger narrative string of rural adversities. So-called “Ag-Trag” themes continue to feature prominently in Lund’s latest songwriting, thus leading him to choose Agricultural Tragic for the name of his 10th full-length studio album.

More on Corb Lund

Corb Lund has received multiple CCMA, Juno, and international award nominations and wins.  His seventh album, Cabin Fever, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Canadian Charts in 2012; three of his records have been certified Gold, and his 2015  studio album, Things That Can’t Be Undone, cemented his status as one of the best contemporary country singer/songwriters working today.  Last September, Corb released Cover Your Tracks, 8-song 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.  

A rural Albertan hailing from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Lund is about as authentic as they come. Before his current bandleader incarnation with the Hurtin’ Albertans, Lund was an integral part of the smalls, a legendary Canadian indie rock band who didn’t quite fit into any single category, either, mixing punk, speed metal, jazz and — indeed — country. Embracing both his Western heritage and his indie-rock past through his music, Lund has been known to filter a range of cowboy themes past and present through his unique lens – from rough-and-tumble tales of lawless frontier saloons to the somber realities of running a modern family ranch.

2o20 Tour Dates

April 27                Victoria, BC                         Alix Goolden Performance Hall

April 28                Duncan, BC                         Cowichan Performing Arts Centre

April 30                Vancouver, BC                   Commodore Ballroom

May 1                   Vancouver, BC                   Commodore Ballroom

May 2                   Penticton, BC                     Cleland Community Theatre

May 3                   Prince George, BC             Vanier Hall

May 4                   Edmonton, AB                   Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

May 5                   Calgary, AB                         Jack Singer Concert Hall

May 7                   Jasper, AB                           The STAND EASY, Jasper Royal Canadian Legion

May 8 Williams Lake, BC   Gibraltar Room, Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex

May 9                   Innisfail, AB                         Daines Rodeo Ranch

May 11                 Prince Albert, SK                EA Rawlinson Centre For The Arts

May 12                 Lloydminster, AB               Vic Juba Community Theatre

May 14                 Regina, SK                           Casino Regina

May 15                 Saskatoon, SK                    Coors Event Centre

May 16                 Cadillac, SK                         Cadillac Community Hall

May 19                 Winnipeg, MB                    Burton Cummings Theatre

May 21                 Sudbury, ON                       Towne House Tavern

May 22                 Toronto, ON                       El Mocambo

May 23                 London, ON                        London Music Hall Music Complex

May 24                 Peterborough, ON            Market Hall Performing Arts Centre

May 25                 Montreal, QC                     Le Belmont

May 26                 Ottawa, ON                        National Arts Centre

July 16 Edmonton, AB   Midway

July 17 Calgary, AB   The Palace 

Track Listing

1. 90 Seconds Of Your Time
2. Old Men
3. I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey (Featuring Jaida Dreyer)
4. Raining Horses
5. Oklahomans!
6. Grizzly Bear Blues
7. Dance With Your Spurs On
8. Louis L’Amour
9. Never Not Had Horses
10. Ranchin’, Ridin’, Romance (Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad)
11. Rat Patrol
12. Tattoos Blues