Corb Lund

When you clear cut, they come in with huge machinery, compact the soil, take away every tree, uh, take all the waste trees, pile them up and burn these slash piles and what's left is a compacted exposed soil that can expose to the sun much hotter, dries out way faster and that soil sponge that should be absorbing the rain and the snow as it melts and absorbing it into the earth that's basically now turned into a brick and water runs off faster takes with it mud and sediment and our water is long gone Saskatchewan before it's soaking into the ground so it leads to floods droughts and there's so many other issues that I can get into but that's why this is important these are public lands and this is where our water comes from and this should has in the past been protected with that intention that water is the highest priority and it is worth more than any tree or any mineral that can be removed in the short term here water is life and that's uh we need a new policy to manage and protect and restore the eastern slopes

yeah call and a lot of folks will have the eastern slopes at least sort of on their radar because they've heard about the coal mining issues there And they've heard about like Corb Lund's petition and that sort of thing.

Are we talking about the generally speaking the same region and did Corb's the water, not coal petition? Did that sort of like serve to at least put this on more folks radar? Like, has it worked kind of in congruence with what you're trying to do to a certain degree? Have you heard people reference it?

Oh, 100%.

It's the record I've listened to the most.

You've got Colter Wall in this country, and I love Corb Lund.

So there's all this great music here.

being made all the time so it's a little bit easier for me to stay on it but what I don't try to stay on is the zeitgeist because I've never really trusted the mainstream's taste in music anyway you know and I still listen to kneecap all the time George always good to see you my friend thanks for dropping by thanks for the invitation always nice to see you too

There are certain people who are definitely involved in that.

Corb Lund being big on that scene.

I think he was heading up something to do.

I don't want to speak out of turn because I don't know the details, but it's something to do with shutting down coal mines or preventing more coal mines from being built.

Uh, says, "The questions, like one through nine, intentionally complex.

I'm reminded of Danielle Smith's statement to Corb Lund.

Uh, quote, 'We frame our questions to get the response we want.'" Says, "That was the quiet part out loud." Now, I'll note that Katie's quoting Corb.

Uh, that's not a direct quote to Alberta's premier.

You have contributed to this.

Corb Lund has contributed so many, um, s- s- particular contributions to that songbook.

And all of those, all of those ideas are like, this could only originate here.

This could only originate here, and that's, that's, to me, that's a thing that makes a distinct kind of culture.

Which listen, I've got land that is important to my family that has passed down, that I hope continues to pass down, and I think legacy in a land asset is a, is a good thing.

And you guys have also talked about that song by, is it Corblund, where the place gets cut up?

Oh, the lazy SJ.

Well anyways, if we can figure out how to, how to leverage the, the problem-solving ability of land as a vehicle to store wealth and help people with finance problems, then we can keep places like that together.

Some Canadians are worried about the longer term impacts of the mine and whether the company will make good on its promises.

Corb Lund is among the skeptics.

I don't believe anything they say, frankly, and I don't think they're telling the truth.

But in my opinion, they're just lying, and they'll say anything they gotta do to get in there with the bulldozers and, and mine our coal.

Mm-hmm.

And you were re- recently, uh, in Europe, uh, with Corb Lund?

Yeah.

Yeah?

I w- hope we do that, another one, uh, sometime soon.

So I'd love to get together with them, and we've talked about, um, trying to do another project.

And also have a thing with Corb Lund and John Evans called The Ego Brothers.

Yeah?

The song itself was written by Stan Jones, the same Western songwriter who gave us Ghost Riders in the Sky.

But Corb Lund gives us a considerably less romantic picture of the West and the work of the cowboy in S. Lazy H., a song that reflects on agricultural estate planning.

Built from a story he's seen repeated across the West, a ranch that's been in a family for generations gets divided among its heirs.

Pieces are sold, development moves in, and eventually the working ranch disappears.