CORB LUND: Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer

Corb Lund

Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer

© 2005 Corb Lund Music (772532130929)

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Old style, acoustic, outlawish, punky brand of traditional country music with enough wit to go around 3 or 4 times.

tracks

1 Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer
2 The Truck Got Stuck
3 Always Keep An Edge On Your Knife
4 The Rodeo's Over (featuring Ian Tyson)
5 Hurtin' Albertan
6 Big Butch Bass Bull Fiddle
7 All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards
8 The Truth Comes Out
9 Counterfeiters' Blues
10 Good Copenhagen
11 Trouble In The Country
12 Little Foothills Heaven
13 The Truck Got Stuck Talkin' Blues (featuring Ramblin' Jack E

notes

The quick version of this story is Corb Lund was a foothills-raised rodeo kid who found compelling urban credibility in the legendary "smalls" playing bass, ultimately exploring his roots playing his own country songs. Plus, live, a few of Willie Nelson's. Don't worry, Willie does the same thing on stage, which is a story for another night.

If you're reading this for clues, I have to almost assume you don't know that Corb pleases large crowds on several continents, that his songs are thoughtful and deliberate and full of the nouns describing our actual surroundings, unique to a land of fluke prosperity that allows for a massive, sensitive artist class thriving in our redneck midst. Now, when Corb and I are drunk watching *Deadwood* at 4:13 a.m., that's the last thing on our minds, but the fact is our part of western Canada is uniquely attuned to sides of farm, oil and city life, underlined by Mr. Lund's actual rural roots, which have nothing to do with anything that might make you cringe about processed country music. His songs are viral anthems which bridge social gaps, celebrating the need for sin and sacrament as much as superior horsepower in doomsday scenarios. And his band is terribly helpful with this.

Kurt Ciesla, for example, plays the echoey standup bass with proud, scary mastery, while Winnipeg's Grant Siemens, the band's latest catch, is a natural wizard of the hillybilly instruments: banjo, slide, etc. He and drummer Brady Valgardson, also a native of Lund's Taber, party hard, play with similar intensity. It's a sight.

As has been written elsewhere, Lund appreciates the old world before country went completely to shit, remembering its humour and darkness, drinking to its diminishing pantheon of living heroes.

Corb Lund could well turn out to be one of them. More importantly, I know you already really love some of the songs on his albums, it's just that now you should take the time and find them.

Ola, amigo.

- Fish Griwkowsky,
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Canadian Country Hallmark

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  • The Truth Is Out!
    author: Trace

    I first heard of Corb Lund while I was flipping channels on the TV and momentarily stopped on a Canadian awards show. Corb won an award for his "Roughest Neck Around". I heard 15 seconds of that song and I knew I had to find out more about it. I did find it and more from Corb Lund, at CD Baby. Thanks from a Montanan in North Dakota.

  • Refreshing music
    author: David Meyers

    I get so tired of the stuff that the major companies try to stuff down our throats. This is real, this is music that I can relate to. I first heard Corb on Sirius Sat. Outlaw channel 63. I found him on the web and bought the cd. Some of the best money on entertainment I have spent in a while. I have to agree that "Truck got stuck" is one hell of a catchy tune. I will be ordering more and hope to see him in concert soon. If you are on the highway and hear this music come blasting from a big truck tanker that is probably me..

  • Love it
    author: Merlo of Wyoming

    Liked the music and the storylines, a CD I had to have mine Listen to it a lot since that I have bought. It fits my rural lifestyle, it makes me want to smile. To anybody I would refer, this music of this fine sir.

  • Awesome CD!
    author: Lee

    A great CD, not a bad song on it. I saw the Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer video on CMT and I ordered the album soon after. Awesome album!

  • WHY NASHVILLE WHY! PLAY CORB LUND HE IS THE MAN!!!
    author: Buck Kirkpatrick

    Awesome CD, awesome. Song after song. This is western country at its best. It is a shame that here in East Tenn people can no longer appreciate the rural life that still exists in Western Canada.

  • Great CD!
    author: KC

    First heard Trouble in the Country and Hair in My Eyes played on 95.3 the Range and knew I had to have this CD! Not a bad song on it (but could do without the second version of the Truck Unstuck song at the end). Otherwise, a jammin CD!! Thanks CD Baby for bringing it to us!

  • How easy was this
    author: Gretchen

    Love the CD. AND LOVED the CD BABY What a great way to order CD's. So easy and fast. Thank you

  • Great CD Great Buy Fast service Thanks
    author: Jack

    Loved the CD Great songs

  • awsome
    author: paige

    Great music I first heard the song "Trouble in the Country" on X-country on XM Radio and loved the end where it talks about thumbs up when you take you turn. So I looked you up on Myspace added you to my webpage and ordered the CD. I am loving it and so has everyone that's listened to it.

  • BUY THIS......impress your friends...............
    author: Texican

    Man what agreat CD, from the opening song , and then we all got friends like those that get stuck and call us to get them out, laughed my rear end off.......not a bad cut on here....Corb must have some Texas in him.....

  • Better!
    author: Elizabeth

    This CD is so much better than the Five Doallr Bill. A must Buy!

  • Much gratitude to the CBC's SXSW podcast!
    author: Dave Johnson

    Thanks to the aforementioned CBC podcast, I was presented with Counterfeit Blues off of this CD. To be able to find such an entertaining artist through these new means is changing my musical world. If Corb and his band make their way to Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, I'll be there! Great CD, great song-writing and an outstanding performance on all levels!

  • I really like this album and band
    author: Lauri McBeath

    I don't care for Country style music, but I LOVE this album. I really appreciate the way the music is put together. It's quite unique. Of course, I fell in love with Truck got Stuck, but the rest of the songs are also good.

  • Great album!
    author: Nicole

    Husband fell in love with "Truck Got Stuck" while streaming Canadian radio....he kept talking about it so I went online and found Corb's album! He loves it!!

  • Great fun, great music!
    author: Sugar Land Texas

    Here around Houston, Texas we know rodeo, flat prairie, oil money, and life in the country. Corb Lund hits them all in this CD and it is great!

  • Great CD for fans of Ian Tyson and new western music!
    author: Howard

    A truly great CD. The Corb Lund/Ian Tyson duet on the Rodio's Over was the best and the Hurtin Albertin oozes twang. Get this CD, you will thank yourself!

  • Great variety and off the beaten trail.
    author: Patrick M.

    Enjoyed the whole album...turning friends on to it and they are now converts of Corb Lund and The Hurtin' Albertans!

  • I like Cord's writing and style
    author: Doug Hardy, singer/songwriter

    I met Corb a couple of years ago at a show in Connecticut and he made a believer out of me. This album is fun, cleanly produced and definitely interesting to listen to. He uses great images. You can see what he's singing about as it happens. Title track is a real country rocker.

  • Quirky Cool Country
    author: Richard Amery Kenora Daily Miner and News

    When Edmonton indie punks the Smalls disbanded, bassist and rodeo rider Corb Lund decided to take a serious shift in musical direction — traditional country. But Lund’s take on traditional country sure ain’t your grandpappy’s country— it is a good deal stranger. Sure, there are slide guitars, twanging telecasters, banjos and mandolin, honest to God yodeling and Cowboy poet Ian Tyson helps sing on the Rodeo’s Over, but Lund’s latest, CD, Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer is different, if only because Lund adds a touch of jazz to some of his songs. Lund’s rambling, stream of consciousness lyrics powered by his raspy wavering voice have a serious quirky edge to them as he sings about trucks getting stuck in muddy fields, counterfeiters, playing cards, trucking, bull fiddles, murder, chewing tobacco versus cocaine and hitting the road in his home Canada. It is one seriously wild ride, while a lot of the lyrics are Albertacentric, you don’t have to be an Albertan or even a Canadian to fully appreciate them. It is quirky, cool, catchy and definitely worth hearing.

  • Great CD
    author: Doug M.

    I fell in love with "The Truck Got Stuck" while streaming Canadian radio. There is a nice mix of songs on the album and my 4-year old keeps stealing it because he likes it as much as I do!

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