"Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer" is the fourth release from Albertan Corb Lund and is the follow up to his award winning album "5 Dollar Bill". Produced at Treasure Isle Recorders in Nashville, TN by Harry Stinson (Dead Reckoners, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett) and engineered by Peter Coleman (Joan Baez, Rodney Crowell) the album features guest performances from some of Nashville's finest players - including contributions from producer Stinson, steel player Scotty Sanders (Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson), guitarist Kenny Vaughn (Lucinda Williams, Marty Stuart), fiddlers Stuart Duncan (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and Tammy Rogers (Dead Reckoners, Reba McEntire), Gordon Mote (Porter Wagoner) and master yodellers Ranger Doug and Too Slim.

In addition Corb's long time touring band "The Hurtin' Albertans" - Kurt Ciesla (bass), Brady Valgardson (drums) and Grant Siemens (guitars, etc) - are a constant presence throughout - their amazing playing reminding the listener why the band recently won the "Best Roots Group" and "Best Independent Group" award at Canada's recent Country Music Awards ceremony, beating off stiff competition from the likes of Kathleen Edwards.

The album runs the gamut of roots music forms and flavours - from western swing to Waylon-esque country rock and ragtime to acoustic blues - and continues in the vein of the band's previous Loose release "Five Dollar Bill" by combining traditional western and acoustic stylings with deceptively incisive lyrics, all to great effect. Part upbeat and light hearted ("Hurtin' Albertan", "The Truck Got Stuck"), wistful and moving ("The Rodeo's Over", "The Truth Comes Out") and outspokenly dissident ("Counterfeiter's Blues") the lyrical content of his new work continues to reflect Lund's unique life experience, blending a Western upbringing (he was a teenage rodeo rider brought up on an Albertan farm) with a decade on the indie rock scene with his previous group, the smalls.

And this is what stands Corb Lund out from many of his western peers. When he sings about such subjects he does so as one who has lived and breathed them. He's neither 'alt' or 'new' - he's just a country singer, plain and simple and is without doubt one of the best and most authentic around.