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Tue 26th The Luminaire presents CORB LUND & THE HURTIN' ALBERTANS + BJ Cole and Gareth Rowan + The Blazing Zoos
Doors 7.30 Corb Lund grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near Taber, Cardston and Rosemary. Lund left his hometown of Taber and moved to Edmonton, where he enrolled in the Grant MacEwan College to study jazz guitar and bass. Lund was a founding member of one of Western Canada's independent bands, The Smalls, who during their twelve-year career sold over 35,000 of their four independently released CDs. Lund and The Smalls toured extensively in Canada, the United States and Europe, including a stint in Bosnia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. The band retired in the fall of 2001. Lund then went to live in Austin, Texas to reflect on the next step in his career and write music for five months. Encouraged by the positive feedback he received from audiences in Austin, he and his band traveled to Nashville and recorded a few songs with producer Harry Stinson, who had previously worked with artists such as Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, and Earl Scruggs. Main support are BJ Cole and Gareth Rowan in a new musical collaboration. Rooted in an era when bands like the Texas Troubadours, The Cherokee Cowboys and the Brazos Valley Boys could hold their own against any jazz or swing combo. A time when Country Music’s audience was becoming increasingly urban, affluent and eager to shake off their “Hick” roots. Gingham and denim was edged out in favour of lavishly decorated Nudie suits, while sophisticated levels of production and stellar musicianship gave the music a gloss far removed from the farmyard. This new project puts BJ Cole back in touch with some of the most definitive styles in Pedal Steel Guitar, and takes Gareth Rowan on a vocal journey unlike any he has undertaken before. The Blazing Zoos are a bracingly bitter five-piece country band from London. The story of their gestation is long and peculiar, but involves a brief imprisonment in West Africa, a sleep-deprived hallucination in Libya and an impulsive journey to Nashville, all endured or enjoyed by the group’s singer and songwriter, the journalist and author Andrew Mueller, in late 2005 and early 2006.
For reasons which made a certain amount of sense at the time, The Blazing Zoos’ live debut, in the summer of 2006, occurred at a beach festival in southern Albania. The Blazing Zoos' present lineup includes former Jesus Jones members Mike Edwards (lead guitar) and Gen Matthews (drums), along with Alec Pointon (bass) and Robin Colgan (piano). They are presently unsigned, but working on rectifying this. |
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