Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
are a Canadian country music band, formerly known as the Corb Lund Band
.
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Corb Lund
Corb Lund, the lead singer, grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near
Taber,
Cardston and
Rosemary. He is proud of being an Albertan.
[1] Lund left his hometown of Taber and moved to
Edmonton, where he enrolled in the
Grant MacEwan College to study jazz guitar and bass.
Lund was a founding member of
The Smalls, who sold over 35,000 albums over a twelve year span, all released independently. Lund and the Smalls toured extensively in Canada, the
United States and
Europe, including a stint in
Bosnia,
Slovenia and the
Czech Republic. The band retired in the fall of 2001.
Lund then went to live in
Austin, Texas to reflect on the next step in his career and write music for five months. Encouraged by the positive feedback he received from audiences in Austin, he and his band traveled to
Nashville and recorded a few songs with producer and drummer Harry Stinson, who had previously performed with artists such as
Steve Earle,
Lyle Lovett, and
Earl Scruggs.
The band supports the recording of their live performances and have approved sharing of live recordings on
Archive.org's Live Music Archive.
The Hurtin' Albertans
The Hurtin' Albertans is Corb Lund's touring band. They have released five albums to critical acclaim.
[2] [3] The band tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia. Much of their time is spent in the
Canadian Prairies and the American southwest.
The band's members are:
- Kurt Ciesla – bass
- Grant "Demon" Siemens – guitar and other strings
- Brady Valgardson – drums
Siemens is the only member who is not Albertan, hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Farmer/drummer Valgardson and Lund are from Taber, Alberta.
Lund's original band, The Smalls, specialized in punk music, and was prominent in Canada’s indie community for about a decade.
Lund is also the song writer of Corb Lund and the Hurtin Albertans. He is a fourth generation Albertan, coming from a long line of cowboys and ranchers. His influences include story telling musicians such as Johnny Horton and Marty Robbins, along with old cowboy ballads passed down through oral tradition within his family. Lund is a self proclaimed history buff, and his repertoire contains many songs about the military (for example the single “I Wanna Be in the Cavalry”).
The band has toured in Europe, where they played the UK Glastonbury Festival. The group was featured the movie “Slither” (2006) and were part of the soundtrack to the 2008 documentary, “Holler Back: (not) Voting in an American Town”. They have also provided accompaniment for an NBC special in 2006, on which Olympic Gold Medalist and fellow Albertan, Kurt Browning, performed a figure skating routine to “Expectation and the Blues”.
They have received 22 awards, including Canadian Country Music Association Awards for 2008 Roots Artist of the Year and Juno Awards 2006 Roots and Traditional Album of the Year. They also have been nominated for many other awards, mostly within Canada.
Corb Lund has signed with New West Records (the home of Dwight Yoakam and other major label artists) for the release of his next album, "Losin' Lately Gambler" set for release on September 29
Discography
Albums
| Year
| Album
| CRIA
Certification
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| 1995
| Modern Pain
A
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| 1999
| Unforgiving Mistress
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| 2002
| Five Dollar Bill
| Gold
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| 2005
| Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
| Gold
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| 2007
| Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
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| 2009
| Losin' Lately Gambler
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Singles
| Year
| Single
| CAN Country
| Album
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| 2002
| "No Roads Here"
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| Five Dollar Bill
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| 2003
| "Five Dollar Bill"
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| "Roughest Neck Around"
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| "Time to Switch to Whiskey"
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| 2004
| "(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots"
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| "Roughest Neck Around" (re-release)
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| 2005
| "Truck Got Stuck"
| 27
| Hair in My Eyes
Like a Highland Steer
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| 2006
| "Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer"
| 15
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| "Counterfeiters' Blues"
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| "Truth Comes Out"
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| 2007
| "I Wanna Be in the Cavalry"
| 28
| Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
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| 2008
| "Family Reunion"
| 45
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| "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier"
| —
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| 2009
| "Hard on Equipment (Tool for the Job)"
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| "A Game in Town Like This"A
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| Losin' Lately Gambler
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"—" denotes the single failed to chart
* denotes unknown peak positions
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Awards
2005
- Western Canadian Music Awards, Entertainer of the Year
- Canadian Country Music Association Awards Independent Group of the Year
and Roots Artist of the Year
2006
- Western Canadian Music Awards for Outstanding Roots Recording
, Best Independent Recording
(both for Highland Steer
) and Songwriter of the Year
[4]
- Canadian Country Music Awards for Roots Artist of the Year
and Album of the Year
- Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year
2007
- Canadian Country Music Award for Roots Artist of the Year
- "The Indies" Favourite Country Artist
Award presented at Canadian Music Week [5]
2008
- Canadian Country Music Award for Roots Artist of the Year
Artist Appears On
2005
Carolyn Mark - Just Married: An Album of Duets CD, “Sweet Thing”, Mint
2006
Slither: Music from the Motion Picture CD, “(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots”, Bulletproof Recording Company Inc.
Various Artists 30 Years of Stony Plain CDs, “The Truth Comes Out”, Stony Plain
Worlds Best Award Winning Country Vol. 5- World’s Best Award Winning Country CD, “Truck Got Stuck”, Pid
2007
Various Artists Gift: A Tribute to Ian Tyson CD, “MC Horses”, Stony Plain
Charity work
In March 2008, the United Nations Children's Fund announced that the band had donated the use of the song "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier" as the theme song of UNICEF Team Canada, the Canadian national
equestrian skill-at-arms team, to support the team's work with UNICEF to provide food and medical care to
AIDS orphans and infants infected with
HIV in the third world.
References
- http://www.straight.com/article-132057/albertan-corb-lund-has-provincial-pride
- http://www.corblund.com/presskit/articles/about.pdf About.com album review. ''Matt Bjorke''
- http://www.corblund.com/presskit/articles/exclaim.pdf Exclaim Magazine review, ''Fish Griwkowsky'',
- http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2006/10/23/awards-west-cdn.html ''Lund, Arden take trophies at We
- The Indies winners list