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01. Southern Way (4:26)
02. Love (3:41)
03. Look How Far We’ve Come (3:11)
04. Higher Ground (3:52)
05. Leaving You (3:02)
06. Helpless Heart (3:29)
07. Innocence (3:19)
08. Changes (4:33)
09. Devils (2:18)
10. Slow Down (4:22)
11. I’ve Become Something (4:44)
12. Lonesome Road (4:55)

 

Total Playtime: 45:52

COREY CROWDER - "Gold And The Sand" - Biography 2008

 

“Southern Way,” the swampy first single from Georgia-raised singer-songwriter Corey Crowder’s much-anticipated new album Gold and The Sand, transports the listener to a laid back, stress-free day at the local fishing hole - but it attains that serenity with driving, infectious roots rock. Such surprising, textured, and ultimately catchy combinations of lyrics and sounds are the mark of the 25-year-old’s adult ambitions achieved - in the first songs he’s released since his emergence as a young online sensation.

Corey’s two self-produced, independent recordings of 2005 and 2006 - consisting of songs he’d written and collected since his teenage years - model a contemporary musical success story. Those early songs were played over five million times on his MySpace page alone after being featured on prime-time television shows. The Biggest Loser, One Ocean View and a particularly audience swelling season-ending scene on MTV’s The Real World all featured Corey’s music from these early independent releases. Extensive touring across the continental United States added to his musical reach and acceptance. That same audience eagerly anticipates hearing Corey’s newest self-penned tunes on Gold and the Sand. These songs, enriched with a newfound maturity and a musical excitement born from fresh creation, will help Corey grow his base of support and find an even larger audience.

The songs on the new CD, richly-textured, varied songs of contemporary, love, life hopes and realities, are Corey’s most personal and mature in content, focusing on the large life questions and course corrections so typically faced by young adults in their mid-twenties. The point of view is sometimes searching, sometimes skeptical, and often pointed, as in “Innocence,” the song from which the album title is taken - a depiction of how the pursuit of status and money can consume peoples’ lives.

The sonically varied tracks feature Corey’s engagingly confessional and distinctive lead vocals, but then they take a route precisely opposite from typical “stripped down” solo-guitar-strumming, singing-songwriter outings to deliver these deep personal stories. Rich with horns, strings, and a road-tested back-up four member rock band (with whom Corey’s been working closely for several years) the album’s sounds often hearken back to the thick soul production of ‘60s and ‘70s album tracks by Al Green or Van Morrison, and the straight-ahead roots rock of Creedence.

Corey is now a contract writer with EMI as well as a recording and touring artist; he and his wife relocated to Nashville from Greenville, SC, in July. In support of the new CD, he will be appearing, along with his back-up band, in a series of dates across Texas in November with appearances in the Southeast to follow.

 

 

 

 

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Produced by Aaron Sprinkle at The Compound (Seattle, WA)
Co-Engineered by Randy Torres
Mixed by JR McNeely at Elm South (Nashville, TN)
Mastered by Hank Williams at Master Mix (Nashville, TN)
Executive Producer: Brandon Ebel
Drum Technician: Aaron Mlasko
Guitar Technician: James Barrett

Art Direction & Design by Jordan Butcher
Illustration by Jordan Butcher
Photography by Steven Taylor Photo