Corb Lund- "Things That Can't Be Undone"

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Stream here!
Tracklist:

1. "Weight Of The Gun"
2. "Run This Town"
3. "Alt Berliner Blues"
4. 'Alice Eyes"
5. "Sadr City"
6. "Washed-Up Rock Star Factory Blues"
7. "S Lazy H"
8. "Goodbye Colorado"
9. "Talk Too Much"
10. "Sunbeam"

the real credit for this thread goes to sabre14 for providing the streaming link in the "Alt Country Bluegrass yada yada" thread

[sabre14]

A few questions with Corb Lund, done by Chuck Schultz (via Roughstock) about Corb's new album, Things That Can't Be Undone:

Chuck Schultz: This is your first album of original music in few years, what kind of approach and vibe did you want to bring?

Corb Lund: With the producer, Dave Cobb, we usually have most of the sounds done up. But Dave likes to have the raw so we just went it and recorded them all live. It's really the only way to make a record, don't need to overdub, fills that kind of shit. Your grand dad's type of recording ya know? We recorded the whole thing at Dave's place.

Chuck Schultz: S Lazy H, a song you played on the road the last couple years, seems to resonate with your fans, what's the backstory on this epic tale?

Corb Lund: S Lazy H was the one we played a lot yeah. I'm proud of that one, never thought I could write a five and a half minute song and keep people's attention but it did. I mean everyone has had shit with families, lawyers and all that. Really this happens (the song) a lot where I'm from, ranching and farming. Trying to divvy it up, you just end up getting fucked. Truly a song that
anyone can relate too, end of the day might be one of the best songs I've written. "Weight Of The Gun," is a song I'd never think of when I think of your music. It has that cool Motown vibe where did that truly come from? I had that riff for like 8 years and then we came up with words, rarely did the band work on songs together but we did on that one. More So they came up with the music and I came in later with the words. It's a song nobody would ever expect me to record, but I like it and honestly after 8 albums, you get kind of stale, everything starts sounding the same so had to do something like this song. I credit Dave with that soulful sound.

Chuck Schultz: Where there any songs you'd be sitting on and just decided it was time to record?

Corb Lund: Sadr City, had the chorus and first verse for years had shit. So I interviewed the soldiers which the song was about. Really got their story and then the song just became what it did.This record doesn't really have any fun songs. I guess the factory song is but still really dark. Dave on this record really took everything and just Kristoffersoned it up.

[bboat11]

Geez, he sounds like kind of a gruff guy based on that interview...

[sabre14]

Oct 9, 2015 13:10:11 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Geez, he sounds like kind of a gruff guy based on that interview...

Corb's a really nice guy but yeah, he can come off as a little blunt in interviews. One thing about him is that he is more shy than most other artists at least in the interviews I've seen over the years. He refers to the bad songs he's written as "crap songs."

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I've never listened to Corb before, but I thought this was pretty solid.

Love:
Weight Of The Gun
Run This Town
Alt-Berliner Blues
Sadr City (favorite track)
Washed Up Rock Star Factory Blues
S Lazy H

Like:
Alice Eyes
Goodbye Colorado
Talk Too Much

Meh:
Sunbeam

Like I said, pretty dang solid. There's surprisingly a lot of diverse sounds here. "Weight Of The Gun" is like Motown-ish, Alice Eyes is a straight up country tune, Sadr City is sort of psychedelic sounding, Goodbye Colorado sounds like something Waylon might have done. I've heard people say that "Sunbeam" sounds like Sturgill Simpson, and while I love Sturgill, this is really the only track I could do without. I know not many people here will listen to this, but you should give it a try! :)

[onebuffalo]

#27 country album with 1000 sold.