Agricultural Tragic

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Agricultural Tragic
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 26, 2020 (2020-07-26)
Length36:58
Label New West
Corb Lund chronology
Things That Can't Be Undone
(2015)
Agricultural Tragic
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Exclaim! 910 [3]
Uncut 710 [4]

Agriculture Tragic is the tenth studio album by Canadian country singer-songwriter Corb Lund. It was originally scheduled for release on April 24, 2020 under New West Records, however it was pushed to June 26, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic [5] [6]

Contents

Tour

A tour of Canada in support of the album was announced for April–July 2020, [5] but was rescheduled to November 2020. [7]

Critical reception

Agricultural Tragic was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 4 reviews. [1]

Track listing

Agricultural Tragic track listing
No.TitleLength
1."90 Seconds of Your Time"2:41
2."Old Men"3:30
3."I Think You Outta Try Whiskey" (featuring Jaida Dreyer)3:05
4."Raining Horses"3:09
5."Oklahomans"1:53
6."Grizzly Bear Blues"3:41
7."Dance With Your Spurs On"2:37
8."Louis L'Amour"3:20
9."Never Not Had Horses"3:48
10."Ranchin', Ridin', Romance (Two Outta Three Ain't Bad)"3:14
11."Rat Patrol"3:02
12."Tattoos Blues"3:06
Total length:36:58

Charts

Chart performance for Agricultural Tragic
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [8] 31
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [9] 40
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [10] 31

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