Lund returns with "El Viejo"
"El Viejo" is Lund's first album of original material since 2020's "Agricultural Tragic."
"It was just a few of us in my house. No studio. No outside producer. No adults in the room. No stress."
"This is my favorite album we've made in years, and I've been planning it for a long while. It's all acoustic instruments; banjos, mandos, acoustic guitars, resonators, not an electric lick on it, and it kinda kicks ass. I LOVE those kinds of sounds and they're my favorite to sing over."
"We cut it all live sitting in a circle like a campfire, and it's the real deal. Honest mistakes and all, live vocals, live guitar solos, live harmonica licks."
Lund will launch his Canadian tour in support of "El Viejo" with New West labelmates 49 Winchester as support, on March 5 in Vancouver, Canada
Lund will also make his Carnegie Hall debut in New York City on March 22 alongside Ramblin' Jack Elliott and more as a part of "Roll On, Cowboys with Andy Hedges & Friends" presented by the National Ranching Heritage Center. He has also announced his initial U.S. headline dates as well as European tour dates supporting the Dead South.
The track listing is:
1. The Cardplayers
2. I Had It All
3. Was Fort Worth Worth It?
4. Out On a Win
5. Redneck Rehab
6. El Viejo (for Ian)
7. When the Game Gets Hot
8. Girl With the Stratocaster
9. It Takes Practice
10. Insha'Allah
11. Old Familiar Drunken Feeling
More news for Corb Lund
- 11/01/24: Johnson, Nelson, Barber, Langley out with new music
- 01/19/22: Lund sings "Songs My Friends Wrote"
- 11/20/18: Lund sets U.S. tour
- 05/14/14: Lund heads to Sun for July disc
- 08/14/12: Lund unleases "Cabin Fever"
- 06/12/12: Lund recovers with "Cabin Fever"
- 08/10/09: Corb Lund sets New West debut for late September
- 02/17/09: Corb Lund signs record deal
CD reviews for Corb Lund
Award-winning Canadian rootsicana artist Corb Lund returns with his 11th album of original material, following the success of his 2022 covers album, "Songs My Friends Wrote." "El Viejo" has an intimate, 'living room' feel and for good reason: an acoustic album recorded in Lund's Lethbridge, Alberta home, it finds Lund and his Hurtin' Albertans in excellent form.
As with each Lund album, it is a challenge to identify where reality and fiction intersect. ...
Fifteen years ago, Corb Lund defined his approach to modern country music:
Hair in my eyes like a highland steer, spring in my step like a white-tailed deer; hitch in my hip like an old sheep dog, puff up my chest like a big bull frog.
As fitting a self-written elegy for a rock 'n' rollin' country singer that has been scribed.
Not much has changed since 2005: Lund's hair is only slightly more stylish, but his music continues to spark with authentic assurance and acumen, and ...
Canadian singer/songwriter Corb Lund is a decade and a half into a fairly successful career with nine studio albums to his credit and a razor sharp touring band, the Hurtin' Albertans, backing him on the road that never ends.
Lund's albums have typically been musical quilts of his myriad influences, including country, folk, indie and roots rock, honky tonk, bluegrass and Western, the specific cowboy genre that evolved on the left side of North America, all of which he channels through ...
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