Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler '2009

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Horse Doctor, Come Quick
02. Steer Rider's Blues
03. A Game in Town Like This
04. Alberta Says Hello
05. Talkin' Veterinarian Blues
06. It's Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean (for Willie P. Bennett)
07. Long Gone to Saskatchewan
08. Devil's Best Dress
09. The Only Long Rider I Know
10. Chinook Wind
11. This Is My Prairie
12. Rye Whiskey / Time to Switch to Whiskey (Live in Australia)

"Horse Doctor, Come Quick," the lead-off track on Corb Lund's American debut
album Losin' Lately Gambler (following five previous Canadian releases, three of
them credited to the Corb Lund Band), is the first of two songs on the disc
about veterinarians, which is two more than just about any other album. But Lund
comes by the subject honestly; his father is a veterinarian, and from the songs
it sounds as though he may have dabbled in the field himself. If not, he got
close enough to hear some of the jokes of the trade. Before his bandleading and
solo career, he was part of an indie punk rock band called the Smalls, and even
though he's switched over to roots-country music, he has retained something of
the irreverent attitude, which gives him a cowpunk feel. He sings in a
molasses-thick adenoidal tenor over the playing of his backup band, dubbed "the
Hurtin' Albertans", which provides arrangements in a variety of rural styles
including rockabilly ("Steer Rider's Blues"), talking blues ("Talkin'
Veterinarian's Blues"), Western Swing ("It's Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean
[For Willie P. Bennett]"), Johnny Cash-style chicka-boom 2-step ("Long Gone to
Saskatchewan," "Time to Switch to Whiskey"), Tex-Mex ("Devil's Best Dress"),
good old rock & roll ("The Only Long Rider I Know"), and Waylon Jennings-style
outlaw country ("Chinook Wind"). This is a songwriter who believes in writing
about what he knows, and what he knows about is the cowboy life of western
Canada. He does not sentimentalize that life; in fact, he often snickers at it.
But he also shows his love for it, notably on "This Is My Prairie." He's like a
cross between Ian Tyson and Ryan Adams, like Michael Martin Murphey fronting
Jason & the Scorchers, like the bastard grandson of Marty Robbins and Wanda
Jackson, like … OK, enough. At the very least, his delighted listeners
will never think about veterinarians the same way again.



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