Cabin Fever

Personnel: Corb Lund (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kurt Ciesla (double bass); Brady Valgardson (drums); John Evans (hand claps, background vocals).Audio Mixers: John Evans; Steven Christensen; Corb Lund.Photographer: Fish Friwkowsky.Canadian cowboys are less about flash and brag than getting the job done -- check out the Calgary Stampede sometime -- and Canadian cowpunks are often the same way, especially Corb Lund. Lund's music fuses a strong classic Western sound with a darkly witty rock & roll sensibility, and Lund plays both sides of the fence with style and heart on his seventh studio album, Cabin Fever. "Getting' Down On the Mountain" kicks the album off in idiosyncratic fashion, spinning a rough-hewn tale of living off the land in the wake of some global apocalypse, and while the album never gets quite that grim again, his drinking songs speak of genuine heartache (especially the harrowing closer "Pour `Em Kinda Strong"), and even when the tunes are funny, they often have a wic