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Corb Lund Nashville Scene - Our Critics Picks - Sept.21 2006 |
CORB LUND Corb Lund is the coolest cowboy to drift down from
the Great White North for a good, long time. Just a couple of weeks ago at the
Canadian Country Music Awards (yep, they really have their own awards shows up
there!), Lund’s countrymen named the Alberta native Roots Artist of the Year and
his album Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer Album of the Year. No
wonder—Lund writes of the homeland (“East of the Rockies and west of the rest”)
and ranching life he knows inside-out with a dry, droll wit and music that has,
to paraphrase his album’s irresistible title cut, spring in its step like a
white-tailed deer. Lund and his band, the wonderfully named Hurtin’ Albertans,
will play an Americana Music Conference showcase alongside Lee Roy Parnell,
James Hand and Ray Wylie Hubbard (Lund goes on at 10 p.m.). (corblund.com) 3rd & Lindsley —CHRIS NEAL