The Canadian roots-rocker's present record was laid down at the infamous Sun Studios in Memphis, but he tries living up more to his legend - via reinterpretations of his older songs in a cut-hot method - than to those of Jerry Lee, Elvis et al. ■ Corb Lund, "Counterfeit Blues" (New West). The well-weathered and experienced Americana singer-songwriter collaborates with Elvis Costello and John Oates (among others) and duets with Patty Loveless and Lee Ann Womack on a disc that does, but doesn't need to, shore up his Nashville penchant for true country music. ■ Jim Lauderdale, "I'm a Song" (Sky Crunch). In advance of its dates opening for KISS and Def Leppard, Canadian metal band led by Kobra Paige, a classically trained singer, drops its latest recorded festival of trebly solos, double bass drums and headbanging rhythms. ■ Kobra and the Lotus, "High Priestess" (Titan Music).
On a curiously classified "double EP," quartet from Porterville, Calif., is something like spoken-word polemics buoyed by ambient rock. ■ Hotel Books, "I'm Almost Happy Here but I Never Feel at Home" (InVogue). Thanks to the stage revival of this outré musical receiving four Tony Awards recently, the release of the cast recording - with Hedwig/Harris and Lena Hall (one Tony each), plus original composer Stephen Track co-producing - has been expedited. ■ Neil Patrick Harris, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" (Atlantic).
(The Walmart edition includes the first issue of his comic book, "Average Joes.") Georgia native who has done as much as anyone else to establish "hick-hop" invites Keith Urban, Lee Brice and others to prettify his latest set of backwoods raps. ■ Colt Ford, "Thanks for Listening" (Average Joes Entertainment). Although lead singer Keith Buckley is still shredding his throat, he claims the seventh LP from the Buffalo-born hard-core group is pointedly fun. ■ Every Time I Die, "From Parts Unknown" (Epitaph). Six tracks on CD, eight tracks on a double-gatefold LP, the second collaborative full-length between revered producer Brian Eno and Underworld overseer Karl Hyde comes out less than two months after the first, "Someday World" the newer one focuses on funk in an Afrobeat vein. This band comes from Cincinnati with an unusual take on early to mid-1970s hard rock and heavy metal: Lead singer Laura Dolan challenges the machismo, not the toughness, of that time.
■ Electric Citizen, "Sateen" (EasyRider). North Carolina band issues its ninth studio album overall - two years after the eighth, nine after the seventh - and carries on its weld of punk and metal with its additional, rawer combo of Southern and Sabbath. ■ Corrosion of Conformity, "IX" (Candlelight).
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