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Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer

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It seemed like Corb Lund was everywhere in 2005, touring Australia with Willie Nelson, playing for the Queen in Edmonton, and as part of Alberta's centennial celebrations in Ottawa, not to mention a rodeo in France and gigs in the UK. This album is infectious from the opening "Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer" to the closing "Truck Got Stuck Talking Blues" with Ramblin Jack Elliott. In between there's some grandfatherly advice "Always Keep An Edge on Your Knife" and a nostalgic ode
about the Alberta landscape "Little Foothills Heaven." It's easy to see why this album won the "roots and traditional album
of the year" at the Canadian Country Music awards and why Corb
was named Western Canada's Entertainer of the Year. The only problem now is getting a ticket to one of their concerts. They're frequently sold out!

I bought this CD within a week of its release and it has a constant place in my vehicle CD player. Corb Lund knows how to take the traditional country rhythyms and put a bit of a twist to them to make them irrestible. My favorite is "Truck Got Stuck"...I crack up every time I hear it. He manages to evoke longing for the West of old with tunes like "The Truth Comes Out" and "My Little Foothills Heaven". I'm not an Ian Tyson fan, but the duet between these two is just magical.

Corb Lund is a fantastic artist who does country his way and I for one am incredibly glad that he has his own sound. If you ever get a chance to see him in concert, do it...you will come away a fan if you aren't already!

I bought this CD hoping for more of the magic that Corb Lund had on his previous disc, which I really love. Unfortunately I was very disappointed. This album is far less accessible to the non-country music listener, such as myself. In one word, I would call it "hokey". The first half of the album flat out sucks. Things bottom out with "All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards" in which he sings about deadlines and which sounds like a case of writing straight through writer's block, which never works. It recovers to mediocre in the last half. There are really no highlights here. "The Truck Got Stuck" is mildly cute, nothing more. Then again, if you thought 5 Dollar Bill was not country enough, you may like this one. As for me, I'll be dumping my copy on eBay, that is if somebody will be willing to buy.