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LISTEN: Corb Lund, “Highway 87” (Hayes Carll Cover)

Apr 26, 2022

Artist: Corb Lund
Hometown: Rural Southern Alberta, Canada
Song: “Highway 87” (Hayes Carll cover)
Album: Songs My Friends Wrote
Release Date: April 29, 2022
Label: New West Records

In Their Words: “I’ve known Hayes forever. We met at a card game in Dauphin, Manitoba, many moons ago and we both lost all our money to my ex, Debbie. Hayes and I have toured together, written together, drank together and heā€™s one of my best friends in music. This song is one of his thatā€™s older and not as widely known, but my guys and I have been playing it for years. I love it.

Songs My Friends Wrote is an album Iā€™ve been threatening to make for years. Itā€™s a bunch of tracks that are my versions of a bunch ofā€¦songs my friends wrote. Iā€™m fortunate to count a lot of world-class songwriters as good pals and I wanted to shine a little light on some of my favourite examples of their work. In most cases Iā€™ve picked relatively obscure songs that have always spoken to me, even though many of them wonā€™t be so familiar to people. Thereā€™s a pretty good chance of a Volume Two, Three and Four eventually, because there were a lot of friends and a lot of songs to choose from. The best part about recording all these tunes was that they reminded me of all the people who I havenā€™t been able to hang out with for the past two years because of the plague weā€™ve all been dealing with. All of these tunes bring a smile to my face and I hope they do the same for you.” — Corb Lund


Photo Credit: Noah Fallis

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