Bob Corley
Montgomery, Alabama, United States | Established. Jan 01, 1998 | SELF
Music
Press
“Bob Corley cuts right to the heart of things when he quills his lyrics, the very first track being a savage indictment of modern business practices, a protest song worthy of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs.”
Mark S. Tucker
http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/
- Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
"Montgomery singer-songwriter Bob Corley is quite the Renaissance man…Corley's debut CD Never Too Late draws from his observations, humor and sometimes outrage with encounters in daily life."
- WBHM-FM Public Radio, Birmingham, AL
“Bob Corley cuts right to the heart of things when he quills his lyrics, the very first track being a savage indictment of modern business practices, a protest song worthy of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs.”
Mark S. Tucker
http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/
- Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
"…flowing melodies complement intelligent and yet poignant lyrics that leave you still thinking about the song you just listened to long after it's finished playing."
- Langdon Reid - from the country duo Grandstaff
“I listen to lots of CDs in this category and I always think that I know all the good artists. Every so often I get blown away by an artist of whom I have never heard. Bob Corley's CD is right up there with the best of them. Every track is a highlight…”
R. Farmer, N. Ireland - CDBaby Listener Review
"…flowing melodies complement intelligent and yet poignant lyrics that leave you still thinking about the song you just listened to long after it's finished playing."
- Langdon Reid - from the country duo Grandstaff
Discography
Never Too Late. 11-song CD (ASCAP. Publisher, I.B. Dog Music). Airplay on Triple-A in Alabama, New York, Ohio, others. Short interview on-line (wbhm.org/tapestry).
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Bio
Small southern town, military service, college, foreign travel (a dozen countries +/-), picked bananas, wrote radio jingles, wrote for a daily newspaper, produced & directed TV shows, married (still married), had children (still have children), and there you are.
Lyrics are paramount. Without them you have an instrumental, and I don't sing instrumentals. Solo acoustic usually, since that's the way I write. Modern Folk is what my songs have been called, but some fit Country, some fit Folk, and some don't fit anywhere, hence the 'genre' averse' label. Subject matter is all-over-the-road -- corporate greed, raising children, Hurricane Katrina, toilet paper, war, salvation, living on the beach, and more. Not everything on the 11-song CD is in the EPK, but Ill be glad to mail you one.
As far as influences are concerned, I think Bob Dylan, James Taylor, and John Prine would be one helluva trio of dinner guests.
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