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Originally Posted by Dion
Suprised to see no love for Alberta's Corb Lund.
A favourite of mine that he did with American singer Hayes Carl
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horse soldier is a remarkable concept album capped by off by his closing revisit to the opening track 'i wanna be in the cavalry'. Always loved the juxtaposition between the glory at stake, and the horror of the following battle.
corb's work is often categorized as nursery rhymish but he can write the heavy heart like few contemporary country artists can.
'one left in the chamber' i always thought of as a suicide song
"There's the one that kept me guessin'
The one who's name I shall not say
There's the one I couldn't lose and then I lost it anyway
There's the one I ended up in
The one that ended all too soon
And the one left in the chamber oughta do"
but later i realized it's more of an old yeller song about putting down a horse
"There's the one I broke too easy
There's the one I couldn't break
There's the one I took to much of
There's all the #### I couldn't take"
thankfully he penned a doozy of a suicide song already 'heavy and leaving'
"These hands have always been too slow in the past
Reluctance greeted nearly every task
Now my old heart tells me he wants it done fast
Discouraged fingers they resist to the last"
his song 'a game in town like this' is the only song i can think of that goes out to the throngs of suckers parked at a VLT or slot machine at 10 AM on a tuesday.
"Stuck in chilly morning traffic cuz I always played too long
Headed north across the bridge and wish'n you were there at home
You used to wake all sleepy headed and ask me if I won
Sometimes I'd just say nothing and now I'm living with what I've done.
I'm a losin' lately gambler but that's not all I've ever been
Cuttin' back your losses is just another way to win."
long post i know, but i guess i just mean to say that the guy deserves a little credit for stepping into darker and unchartered waters.
