- Don’t drop it!
Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan Smith, Erin Costelo and more. As for the rest of it, Corbett says: “I geeked out on all the other instruments. It sounds bluegrassy in places, jazzy in others, there’s funk, country, but always with the acoustic guitar and a vocal narrative predominating.” Corbett also hosts a weekly songwriters’ circle called Sing for your Supper every Saturday afternoon from 2-5pm at the Carleton where “each week a new card of up-n-comers share the stage,” he says. “It’s a real good time and we’re always looking for performing songwriters to come by and make us laugh and cry.”
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2009.
