Five Dollar Bill Explained

Five Dollar Bill
Type:	Album
Artist:	Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
Cover:	FiveDollarBill.jpg
Released:	June 11, 2002
Recorded:	Hum Depot (Nashville) Homestead Recorders (Edmonton)
Genre:	Roots/Country/Blues
Length:	37:48
Label:	Stony Plain Records, Loose Music
Producer:	Harry Stinson
Prev Title:	Unforgiving Mistress
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
Next Year:	2005

Five Dollar Bill is the third album by Canadian country artist Corb Lund, and the first on which his backing band was credited as The Hurtin' Albertans. It was also Lund's first album to be certified gold for sales of 50,000 copies in Canada. It won the "Outstanding Album (Independent)" at the 2003 Western Canadian Music Awards.^[1] It was also ranked the #1 album of 2002 by The Gauntlet, the student newspaper of the University of Calgary.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Corb Lund.

1. Five Dollar Bill - 2:33
2. Expectation and the Blues - 2:56
3. Short Native Grasses (Prairies of Alberta) - 3:46
4. There Are No Roads Here - 3:21
5. Apocalyptic Modified Blues - 3:03
6. Heavy and Leaving - 3:25
7. Intro/Jack of Diamonds - 0:36
8. Time to Switch to Whiskey - 2:53
9. Roughest Neck Around - 3:12
10. Daughter Don't You Marry No Guitar Picker - 2:23
11. (Gonna) Shine Up My Boots - 2:13
12. Buckin' Horse Rider - 3:34
13. She Won't Come to Me - 3:45

Notes and References

1. http://breakoutwest.ca/wcma/previous-years/2003-awards/?wwparam=1343079279
2. Web site: The Corb Lund Band, Five Dollar Bill . The Gauntlet . 16 January 2003 . 24 November 2013 . Dyck, Russ . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225242/http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/corb-lund-band-five-dollar-bill . 2 December 2013 .