Corey Crowder (singer)
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Corey Crowder is a singer from Georgia. He released several independent recordings and was signed to Tooth & Nail Records
for 2008 and 2009.
In August 2005 Crowder released an 11-track acoustic full-length album that included some re-recorded songs from Certain Starlights as well as some brand new material. The album was called Learning to Let Go: Home Recordings and was the most successful release to date thanks to MTV airing various songs from the album on their reality show The Real World.
In September 2005 Crowder married his high school sweetheart Laney Harris and relocated to Greenville, South Carolina
. Crowder began writing new material for the 2006 EP release Starting All Over. The band went into the studio with drummer John Taylor in Lawrenceville, Georgia
, and released Starting All Over.
Crowder and the band spent much of 2006 touring nationally and promoting the new album. After a year on the road, Crowder is currently spending time writing and recording demos in preparation for his fourth release due out later this year. "I feel that this will be my most musically and lyrically mature album to date," He says of the new album, "I am constantly changing both musically and in my personal life and it's nice to have my music reflect those life changes." Focusing on his southern roots Crowder plans on bringing new musical elements into this album.
Crowder left Tooth & Nail Records
in 2009, and in 2011 signed as a country singer with Sony Records and as a song writer with Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville. He toured with Lee DeWyze
from June 19 through July 1, 2011.
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...
for 2008 and 2009.
Biography
Crowder launched his first serious music project in the fall of 2001, and began recording demos and playing shows under the name A Farewell to Arms. In 2003 he released his first full-length album recorded from home called Certain Starlights and Fleeting Daybreaks. He spent the next year and half growing his fan-base and trying to play out as often as possible. As things began to grow more and more serious he decided to instate a bit of a change. He droppped the name A Farewell to Arms in early 2005 and began recording and performing as Corey Crowder due to the growing concern that the name A Farewell to Arms was too confusing for listeners, and didn't quite fit the sound that Crowder had developed.In August 2005 Crowder released an 11-track acoustic full-length album that included some re-recorded songs from Certain Starlights as well as some brand new material. The album was called Learning to Let Go: Home Recordings and was the most successful release to date thanks to MTV airing various songs from the album on their reality show The Real World.
In September 2005 Crowder married his high school sweetheart Laney Harris and relocated to Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina
-Law and government:The city of Greenville adopted the Council-Manager form of municipal government in 1976.-History:The area was part of the Cherokee Nation's protected grounds after the Treaty of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War. No White man was allowed to enter, though some families...
. Crowder began writing new material for the 2006 EP release Starting All Over. The band went into the studio with drummer John Taylor in Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville is a city in and the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, in the United States. The Census Bureau estimates the 2008 population at 29,258...
, and released Starting All Over.
Crowder and the band spent much of 2006 touring nationally and promoting the new album. After a year on the road, Crowder is currently spending time writing and recording demos in preparation for his fourth release due out later this year. "I feel that this will be my most musically and lyrically mature album to date," He says of the new album, "I am constantly changing both musically and in my personal life and it's nice to have my music reflect those life changes." Focusing on his southern roots Crowder plans on bringing new musical elements into this album.
Crowder left Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...
in 2009, and in 2011 signed as a country singer with Sony Records and as a song writer with Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville. He toured with Lee DeWyze
Lee DeWyze
Leon James "Lee" DeWyze, Jr. is an American singer-songwriter from Mount Prospect, Illinois, and the winner of the ninth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, DeWyze had a solo career and formed the Lee DeWyze Band. He had also released two independent albums called So I'm Told in 2007 and...
from June 19 through July 1, 2011.
As Corey Crowder
- Learning to Let Go (2005)
- Starting All Over (2006)
- Gold and the Sand (2008)
- Lost and Found (2009)