{"id":9198,"date":"2014-07-08T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2014-07-08T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:02:30","slug":"corb-lund-counterfeit-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/07\/08\/corb-lund-counterfeit-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Corb Lund &#8211; Counterfeit Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/07\/08\/corb-lund-counterfeit-blues\/corb-lund-counterfeit-blues\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corb-Lund-Counterfeit-Blues-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corb-Lund-Counterfeit-Blues\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dozen tunes on Corb Lund\u2019s latest, <i>Counterfeit Blues, <\/i>will be familiar to anyone who has been following Corb\u2019s career since the demise of the smalls.<!--more--> But they may be unfamiliar to new fans, especially those who are turning on to the Hurtin\u2019 Albertan(s) act down in Red Dirt country. As such, this is a beauty primer of some of the band\u2019s live staples. But rather than just assemble a \u201cbest of\u201d from those early albums, Corb and the boys went into historic Sun Studios in Memphis and cut them all live off the floor. That\u2019s right, live off the floor in Sun Studios, the same way Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins done it. And while the live sound lacks that studio precision, for the most part the songs come off sounding better for it. \u201cGood Copenhagen,\u201d \u201cHurtin\u2019 Albertan,\u201d and \u201cFive Dollar Bill\u201d are even more rousing than the originals, and the other nine aren\u2019t far behind. \u201cBig Butch Bass Bull Fiddle\u201d even sounds like it could have been cut by Carl Perkins on the flipside of his original \u201cBlue Suede Shoes.\u201d And to make the pot even sweeter, the collection comes with a DVD of the <i>Corb Lund Memphis Sun<\/i>CMT special that was filmed at the time of recording. If you caught Corb\u2019s act at the Winnipeg Folk Fest this year, or Dauphin Countryfest a year back, but haven\u2019t jumped into album ownership just yet, <i>Counterfeit Blues<\/i> is a great place to start. And if you been following the Hurtin\u2019 Albertans all up and down the Hillbilly Highway for years, well, you won\u2019t wanna miss this, either. Giddyup! (New West, <a href=\"http:\/\/corblund.com\" target=\"_blank\">corblund.com<\/a>) <b>Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dozen tunes on Corb Lund\u2019s latest, Counterfeit Blues, will be familiar to anyone who has been following Corb\u2019s career since the demise of the smalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}