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Corb Lund is a dying breed. More of a storyteller than a musician, Corb Lund’s heartfelt music is steeped in history and tall-tales, firmly rooted in the frontier culture of the Canadian Prairies. Born on a horse farm in Taber, Alberta, Corb gave up the rural lifestyle he grew up in to study music at nearby Grant McEwan College, focusing on jazz guitar and bass. Though apart from the countrified life he had come to know and love, Corb’s appreciation for his roots would echo through in music - though just not yet.

He joined an alternative punk band called The Smalls in 1990, playing bass. The Smalls never achieved mainstream success, but built a large and dedicated fan base across the United States and Canada over their eleven year career. Before their breakup in 2001, The Smalls released four albums: The Smalls (1993), To Each A Zone (1992), Waste and Tragedy (1995), and My Dear Little Angle (1999).

Though Corb’s was first and foremost a member of The Smalls during the band’s existence he began his own country project on the side in 1995, originally calling the group the Corb Lund Band. With Corb taking up both bass and lead vocal duties, the band put out two independent albums throughout the later half of the 1990’s before finally hitting it big with their third release, 2002’s Five Dollar Bill, which was released on Canadian country label Stony Plain Records. Five Dollar Bill sold over 50,000 copies in Canada, earning a Gold certification. Far from the cookie cutter country from Nashville that dominates the airwaves, The Corb Lund Band’s lyrical brand of alternative country soon found itself a devoted following.