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Artist:Corb Lund Album: El Viejo
Label: New West
Tracks: 11
Website: https://www.corblund.com/
Corb Lund are a banjo-driven Americana cowboy/country band from Canada. They are presently touring the States and the lead singer is coming to the UK in June to play some select shows. They are a hugely popular band over there and on listening to this album you can see why! You can smell the sawdust and the Jack Daniels in the music. It’s the real authentic beast shipped in from the mid-west. The album starts with 'The Cardplayer', a banjo driven tour de force on card games and gambling. I love the drumming, with the snare drum driving the band along, it’s straight out of a Mexican western movie, I’m thinking the Magnificent Seven. The banjo playing is just phenomenal, and the dynamics are very carefully ridden to maximise the effect, it’s a proper country hit.
Other tracks that stir the blood are the 2nd song ‘I Had It All’, with a really funky harmonica and 'Redneck radio’ a homage to ‘Redeck rehab’ , with handclaps from what sounds like a whole bar, urging the banjo on… fantastic stuff, the lyrics are about the working man ‘chopping wood’ in the pinewood. The title track sounds very Townes Van Zandt, with more of an outlaw country sound and a beautiful guitar, it could be ‘Pancho and Lefty’, fantastic…
The whole production is just great, the band vary the dynamics beautifully and the backing vocals are very cleverly done. Corb Lund’s voice is a strong baritone and is recorded in a very up-front way with minimal effects, this is a great band record with an authentic feel. If you get the chance to catch Corb Lund on the UK leg of the tour, I can’t recommend them highly enough.
Andy Smythe
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