Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans

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Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans at the 2005 Canadian Country Music Awards
Background information
Origin	Alberta, Canada
Genre(s)	Roots, Country
Years active	1995 - 2001 as Corb Lund Band 2001 - Present as Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
Label(s)	Stony Plain Records (Independent)
Website	www.corblund.com
Members
Corb Lund, Kurt Ciesla, Grant Siemens, Brady Valgardson

Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans are a Canadian band formerly known simply as the Corb Lund Band

1 Corb Lund
2 The Hurtin' Albertans
3 Discography
4 Awards
5 Live Recordings
6 External links
7 Notes

[edit] Corb Lund

Corb Lund, the lead singer, grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near Taber, Cardston and Rosemary. Lund left his hometown of Taber and moved to Edmonton, where he enrolled in the Grant MacEwan College to study jazz guitar and bass.

Lund was a founding member of one of Western Canada's independent bands, The Smalls, who during their twelve-year career sold over 35,000 of their four independently released CDs. Lund and the Smalls toured extensively in Canada, the United States and Europe, including a stint in Bosnia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. The band retired in the fall of 2001.

Lund then went to live in Austin, Texas to reflect on the next step in his career and write music for five months. Encouraged by the positive feedback he received from audiences in Austin, he and his band traveled to Nashville and recorded a few songs with producer Harry Stinson, who had previously worked with artists such as Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, and Earl Scruggs.

[edit] The Hurtin' Albertans

The Hurtin' Albertans is the name given to Corb Lund's touring band. Together they have released 4 full length albums to much critical acclaim ^[1] ^[2]. The band tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia though much of their time is spent in the Canadian Prairies and the American southwest

The bands' members are;

Kurt Ciesla - Bass
Grant 'Demon' Siemens - Guitar and other strings
Brady Valgardson - Drums

[edit] Discography

Modern Pain (1995, re-released 2003)
Unforgiving Mistress (1999)
Five Dollar Bill (2002)
Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer (2005)

[edit] Awards

2007 "The Indies" Favourite Country Artist Award presented at Canadian Music Week^[3]
2006 Western Canadian Music Awards for Outstanding Roots Recording, Best Independent Recording (both for Highland Steer) and Songwriter of the Year ^[4]
2006 Canadian Country Music Awards for Roots Artists of the Year and Album of the Year
2006 Juno for Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year
2005 Western Canadian Music Awards, Entertainer of the Year
2005 Canadian Country Music Association Awards Independent Group of the Year and Roots Artist of the Year

[edit] Live Recordings

Corb Lund and his management team have approved the sharing of live recordings on archive.org's Live Music Archive. A link can be found in the External Links section below.