Corb Lund Releases Long-Anticipated New Album Agricultural Tragic 

“The songs on Agricultural Tragic sparkle with a kind of authenticity that only someone who lives that life can project.”

–American Songwriter

“Do yourself a favour and get your freshly sanitized hands on a copy of the new (album)… Pre-empting any hype or hyperbole, Agricultural Tragic is a record with instantly detectable depth and energy.”

-Edmonton Journal

 “Eloquent and plainspoken, the excellent Agricultural Tragic finds the affable country rocker exploring his roots as a rancher and rodeo rider while striving to adapt this traditional identity to the challenging modern world… Corb Lund radiates authenticity from first note to last.”

–No Depression

Corb Lund today releases his first new studio album with original material in five years, Agricultural Tragic. The 12-song set follows his acclaimed 2015 album Things That Can’t Be Undone, and the 2019 EP of cover songs, Cover Your Tracks.

“The time has finally arrived to release our new record into the wild,” says Lund. “We’re gonna let ‘er buck, pandemic or no pandemic. My guys and I worked our butts off making this album, and it blends all kinds of old school country music with the exotic rural content you’ve come to know and love.”

Lund debuted an acoustic video yesterday morning for the song “I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey.” The album track, Lund says, “is an old fashioned country couple-style duet with my friend Jaida Dreyer and it’s dedicated to Loretta and Conway, Kris and Rita, Johnny and June and Tammy and George.”

Lund recently announced a revised list of Canadian tour dates. Scheduling updates based on local health and safety advisories are posted as they become available at corblund.com.

Lund will make his long-awaited debut at the legendary Grand Ole’ Opry in Nashville, TN on August 29^th, 2020.

Agricultural Tragic is also the name of Lund’s self-applied subgenre. While examining his own body of work, he  noticed and wryly named this larger narrative string of rural adversities. So-called “Ag-Trag” themes continue to feature prominently in Lund’s latest songwriting, thus leading him to choose Agricultural Tragic for the name of his 10th full-length studio album.

“There are people who do Western music and they kind of freeze-dry it, like museum style,” Lund says. “I don’t do that at all. I’m interested in expressing myself currently. Which is actually what it feels like to have six generations of cowboy heritage thrown into the crazy 21st Century urban setting. I love the traditional style and I use it. But I approach it with abandon and irreverence.”

Corb Lund has received multiple CCMA, Juno, and international award nominations and wins.  His seventh album, Cabin Fever, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Canadian Charts in 2012; three of his records have been certified Gold, and his 2015  studio album, Things That Can’t Be Undone, cemented his status as one of the best contemporary country singer/songwriters working today.  Last September, Corb released Cover Your Tracks, 8-song collection of unexpected cover songs previously recorded by AC/DC, Nancy Sinatra, Billy Joel, Marty Robbins, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Willie Nelson & Ray Charles, and Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.

A rural Albertan hailing from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Lund is about as authentic as they come. Before his current bandleader incarnation with the Hurtin’ Albertans, Lund was an integral part of the smalls, a legendary Canadian indie rock band who didn’t quite fit into any single category, either, mixing punk, speed metal and — indeed — country. Embracing both his Western heritage and his indie rock past through his music, Lund has been known to filter a range of cowboy themes past and present through his unique lens – from rough-and-tumble tales of lawless frontier saloons, to the somber realities of running a modern family ranch.

Tour dates:

November 8, 2020	Cranbrook, BC	Key City Theatre
November 10, 2020	Duncan, BC	Cowichan Performing Arts Centre
November 13, 2020	Victoria, BC	Alix Goolden Performance Hall
November 16, 2020	Penticton, BC	Cleland Community Theatre
November 17, 2020	Williams Lake, BC	Cariboo Memorial Centre
November 18, 2020	Quesnel, BC	Quesnel and District Seniors Center
November 19, 2020	Prince George, BC	Vanier Hall
November 20, 2020	Vernon, BC	Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
November 21, 2020	Trail, BC	Charles Bailey Theatre
November 22, 2020	Vancouver, BC	Commodore Ballroom
November 24, 2020	Edmonton, AB	Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
November 25, 2020	Lloydminster, AB	Vic Juba Community Theatre
November 26, 2020	Regina, SK	Casino Regina
November 27, 2020	Saskatoon, SK	Coors Event Centre
November 28, 2020	Cadillac, SK	Cadillac Community Hall
November 30, 2020	Calgary, AB	Jack Singer Concert Hall
December 1, 2020	Winnipeg, MB	Burton Cummings Theatre
December 4, 2020	Sudbury, ON	The Townehouse
December 5, 2020	St. Catherine’s, ON	Warehouse Concert Hall
December 6, 2020	London, ON	London Music Hall
December 7, 2020	Toronto, ON	The Great Hall
December 8, 2020	Peterborough, ON	Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
December 9, 2020	Ottawa, ON	National Arts Centre
December 10, 2020	Montreal, QC	Le Belmont

Track listing:

1. 90 Seconds Of Your Time
2. Old Men
3. I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey (Featuring Jaida Dreyer)
4. Raining Horses
5. Oklahomans!
6. Grizzly Bear Blues
7. Dance With Your Spurs On
8. Louis L’Amour
9. Never Not Had Horses
10. Ranchin’, Ridin’, Romance (Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad)
11. Rat Patrol
12. Tattoos Blues