Alt-country's his gift Final Edition
Writing and singing songs about the short native grasses of Alberta, bison bones bleached in the sun or the frightened mare with her nostrils flared and ears pinned back, former rocker Corb Lund has more honest-to-God, authentic cowboy in him than a dozen Tim McGraws. Then again, country authenticit...
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| Published in | Province (Vancouver, B.C.) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Vancouver, B.C
Postmedia Network Inc
09.04.2003
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| Summary: | Writing and singing songs about the short native grasses of Alberta, bison bones bleached in the sun or the frightened mare with her nostrils flared and ears pinned back, former rocker Corb Lund has more honest-to-God, authentic cowboy in him than a dozen Tim McGraws. Then again, country authenticity was never Nashville's agenda anyway. Whatever explorations he might have made early in his career, Lund is a songwriter at heart and a damned good one. His grasp of the craft of writing is superb, his turn of phrase at times dazzling. Lund tries to put down on paper what he feels in his bones, that nebulous but rock-real sense of where he comes from; that and the fact there really is an Alberta culture. |
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