Corb Lund To Release Losin' Lately Gambler

Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ New West Records) - Acclaimed Juno-Award winning singer/songwriter Corb Lund makes his New West Records debut with Losin' Lately Gambler, a new album propelled by stand-up bass and steel guitar set to his Jack London-esque yarns about down-and-out cowboys, whiskey and ranching. Showcasing his exhilarating style of Western music, Losin' Lately Gambler (September 29, 2009 / New West Records)was recorded in Nashville and produced by Harry Stinson (Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett). Lund will tour extensively behind the new record throughout Canada and the United States including a stop in Nashville for the 10th Annual Americana Music Festival on September 16th.

The Juno-Award winning Lund sells out arenas in Western Canada and is becoming increasingly visible in the United States. He's toured solo, as well as with other artists, including Hayes Carll and Robert Earl Keen. Lund's music reaches across genres allowing him to appear at varied major festivals worldwide from the main stage at Glastonbury in the UK and Virginfest in Canada to clubs across the country from Nashville to Los Angeles.

Lund is a storyteller, first and foremost. His narratives on Losin' Lately Gambler range in topics from gambling, steer riding, veterinarians (inspired by his father's line of work) and beyond. Lund's tales are often of a specific subject but resonate deeper. "A Game In Town Like This," the album's first single, "is about losing at cards but a metaphor for losing at deeper things" Lund explains. "The message is pretty clear. But there is still a fantastic 5/5 pot limit Omaha game not far from here..." Lund changes his tone with Spanish guitar on "Devil's Best Dress" adding a spark to the Marty Robins-esque ballad. He sings of regret and loss on "Alberta Says Hello" and of the true perils of being a rural vet on "Talkin' Veterinarian Blues."

Lund was born and raised in rural Southern Alberta and boasts a lineage of generations of ranchers. He would likely have had a more traditional country sound, but went through a musical development in his teens, as a founding member (and key writer) of a successful indie rock band called The Smalls. Lund has been singing about his upbringing, in his own style, for more than a decade on critically acclaimed albums such as the Canadian gold-selling Five Dollar Bill (2002), Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer (2005) and Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (2007). He was recently nominated for the Canadian Country Music Association's Roots Artist of the Year, a category he has won the previous five consecutive years. Lund has also won countless Western Canadian Music Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards and both Canadian and U.S. Independent Music Awards.
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