Cory Marrow CD Review
Cory Morrow
Vagrants & Kings
Sustain 001143
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Honest modern-day Texas barroom country
Supported by his band, Texas singer-songwriter Cory Morrow delivers a set of material awash in feel good songs. Plied with hooky rhythms and backing that features not only guitars and percussion, but a little fiddle, B3, keyboards and brass the music easily flows. Among the album’s genuine highlights you have feisty offering Ten Mile Road, Gettin’ Ready To Rain closely followed by his co-write with singer-songwriter/recording artist Radney Foster Lord You Devil.
While Morrow not for the first time teams up with fellow singer-songwriter, Walt Wilkins on Love Finds Everyone, and with good use of fiddle and tempered restless energy a high point is obtained and source for the title for the album. On clever use of various song titles of a Texas heritage he pays homage to some of the State’s greats on the okay All Said And Done. If Morrow is ever to gain a place alongside them he is going to have to raise the standard of his work, good and honest though be the likes of above noted gritty affairs Getting’ Ready To Rain, Ten Mile Road. That has everything but the kitchen sink thrown at it, such the manner it rocks with guitars, fiddle (Nick Worley) and vocal harmonies crowding the lead vocals of Morrow!
Closing it all we have another Walt Wilkins co-write, Worth It—a less than remarkable song it is followed by the superior and gritty, lead guitar/fiddle swirling bonus track that I take to be entitled Just For The Ride. Maurice Hope