Name: Corb Lund with The Hurtin' Albertans
Start: 2016-02-19T00:30:00

CORB LUND TEAMS UP WITH DAVE COBB FOR AMBITIOUS NEW ALBUM THINGS THAT CAN'T BE UNDONE

An ambitious, stylistically diverse and frequently surprising collection, Corb Lund returns with his highly-anticipated new studio album, Things That Can't Be Undone (New West Records). Helmed by white-hot producer Dave Cobb at his Nashville studio Low Country Sound, the record marks Lund's first new studio LP in five years and finds the acclaimed Canadian songwriter pushing his wry observations, darkly biting tales, rural balladry and keen storytelling into musically and thematically new terrain, resulting in the best album of his accomplished career. The 10-song collection is available digitally, on CD, 180-gram vinyl and as a deluxe CD/DVD featuring a 22-minute mini-documentary titled "Undone" and a six-song acoustic performance. Rolling Stone debuted the soulful album opener, "Weight Of The Gun," which Alberta-based Lund describes as a "Louis L'Amour style western tale crossed with Motown."

Lund's previous album, 2012's Cabin Fever, hit #1 in Canada its first week, was certified gold, made the Polaris Music Prize longlist and led to him making big strides in the U.S. In addition to helping him secure a foothold in America, avowed fan Miranda Lambert invited Lund to open several stadium shows for her and Dierks Bentley and record made an impression with the media; raves came from NPR, Uncut (9 out of 10) the New York Times and the Washington Post, which exclaimed: "Lund is a revelation, laconic and scary smart, with a devil's eye for details."

ABOUT THINGS THAT CAN'T BE UNDONE

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Recorded with his long time band The Hurtin' Albertans (Grant Siemens on electric guitar and lap steel, Kurt Ciesla on bass and Brady Valgardson on drums), Things That Can't Be Undone is a self-assured and mature set of songs that pairs Lund's characteristically sharp songcraft with a bevy of new sounds, thrusting his mix of earnest Americana, rollicking honky tonk and rousing alt-country to new heights. "I would like to think it's a healthy balance of pushing our stylistic boundaries and pushing our audience's ears, but keeping it familiar enough so that they're not totally alienated," explains Lund. "I think I've trained them by now to expect different things."

Whereas in the past, Lund and band brought fully formed songs to the producer and knocked out an album in a few days, they took a different approach this time. Over a two-week period this past April they holed up with Cobb in his studio and collaborated with him on each of the arrangements. Together they constructed the songs, broke them down, and often rebuilt them. "Dave has a very organic, and somewhat retro, way of working," reveals Lund. "He's into old school sounds, and less processing. It's a real natural sort of sound, which I'm also very into. He's very spontaneous and he wasn't afraid to tear apart my arrangements and start over. It was good for us."

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