| Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans | |
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Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Corb Lund Band |
| Origin | Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Country Folk Bluegrass Indie |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | New West |
| Website | www.corblund.com |
| Members | |
| Corb Lund Kurt Ciesla Grant Siemens Brady Valgardson |
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Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans are a Canadian country music band, formerly known as the Corb Lund Band.
Corb Lund, the lead singer, grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near Taber, Cardston and Rosemary. He is proud of being an Albertan.[1] 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 The Smalls, who sold over 35,000 albums over a twelve year span, all released independently. 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.
Hurtin' Albertans is Corb Lund's touring band. They have released five albums to critical acclaim.[2][3] The band tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia. Much of their time is spent in the Canadian Prairies and the American southwest.
The band's members are:
Siemens is the only member who is not Albertan, hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Farmer/drummer Valgardson and Lund are from Taber, Alberta.
The band has toured Europe, where they played the UK Glastonbury Festival, and Australia several times. The group was featured the movie "Slither" (2006) and were part of the soundtrack to the 2008 documentary, "Holler Back: (Not) Voting in an American Town." They have also provided accompaniment for an NBC special in 2006, on which Olympic gold medalist and fellow Albertan, Kurt Browning, performed a figure skating routine to “Expectation and the Blues”. Their music can also be heard in the ski film "Nine Winters Old."
Corb Lund signed a two-album deal with New West Records (home of Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson and other major artists) in 2009. His first record on New West, "Losin' Lately Gambler," was released in September 2009.
Corb Lund and the Hurtin Albertans played their 2009 single "Long Gone to Saskatchewan" in Ottawa for the 2011 Canada Day ceremonies in the presence of the newlywed Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge on their Royal visit to Canada.[4]
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
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| Modern Pain |
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| Unforgiving Mistress |
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| Five Dollar Bill |
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| Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer |
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| Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! |
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| Losin' Lately Gambler |
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| Year | Single | Album |
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| 2002 | "No Roads Here" | Five Dollar Bill |
| 2003 | "Five Dollar Bill" | |
| "Roughest Neck Around" | ||
| "Time to Switch to Whiskey" | ||
| 2004 | "(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots" | |
| "Roughest Neck Around" (re-release) | ||
| 2005 | "Truck Got Stuck" | Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer |
| 2006 | "Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer" | |
| "Counterfeiters' Blues" | ||
| "Truth Comes Out" | ||
| 2007 | "I Wanna Be in the Cavalry" | Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! |
| 2008 | "Family Reunion" | |
| "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier" | ||
| 2009 | "Hard on Equipment (Tool for the Job)" | |
| "A Game in Town Like This" | Losin' Lately Gambler | |
| "Long Gone to Saskatchewan" | ||
| 2010 | "Devil's Best Dress" | |
| "This Is My Prairie" |
| Year | Video | Director |
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| 2004 | "(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots" | Joel Stewart |
| "Roughest Neck Around" | ||
| 2005 | "Truck Got Stuck" | |
| 2006 | "Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer" | |
| "Counterfeiters' Blues" | Thaddeus Grant Fenton | |
| "Truth Comes Out" | Trevor Smith | |
| 2007 | "I Wanna Be in the Cavalry" | |
| 2008 | "Family Reunion" | Trevor Smith/John Kerr |
| 2009 | "Hard on Equipment (Tool for the Job)" | Trevor Smith |
| "A Game in Town Like This" | ||
| 2010 | "Devil's Best Dress" | Christopher Mills |
In March 2008, the United Nations Children's Fund announced that the band had donated the use of the song "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier" as the theme song of UNICEF Team Canada, the Canadian national equestrian skill-at-arms team, to support the team's work with UNICEF to provide food and medical care to AIDS orphans and infants infected with HIV in the third world.
In March 2010, Lund appeared as part of Young Artists for Haiti to record a benefit version of K'naan's song "Wavin' Flag".
On July 11, 2010, Lund headlined the Medicine Hat Flood Relief Show, which raised $68,000 for Canadian Red Cross 2010 Flood Relief campaign, which benefits those affected by the disastrous flooding in Southern Alberta.
Lund participated in a charity poker tournament in support of the Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 22, 2010.