4th generation Albertan rancher and songwriter
Corb Lund has just completed a playful video for his new single "Getting'
Down on the Mountain," the first mp3 from 'Cabin Fever' (New West / August
14), envisioning an apocalypse coming "when the oil stops, everything
stops."
Here's the video, filmed in northern Alberta just before the
snow melt and showing beautiful desolation, with Lund running through the
tundra:
He says, "I first started this song and it was about
partying at a ski resort. Then it turned into an 'end of civilization' kind of
thing. You never know how these things are going to turn out. It's a canned
food and ammo rocker. I watched this movie called 'Collapse' and it is about
the definite possibility of an imminent petroleum crunch of petroleum crash and
it got me thinking about canned food and ammunition."
He sings, "don't want to be around when the shit goes
down… brother can't you spare some ammo."
The video was directed and shot by Fish Griwkowsky and
edited by Justin Lachance.
Interestingly, the song is neither major or minor, with the
root chord being a D5. He explains the origins of the song; the guitar parts;
and more in this YouTube video:
Corb clarifies, for those wondering about his look in the
video, "The beard is real, in answer to numerous inquiries."
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