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Hee Haw Sessions Presents...

David Corley

Full kick ass band ft. Cait O'Riordan (The Pogues), producer Chris Brown, drummer Gregor Beresford (Tom Cochrane) & Joey Wright

David Corley endured a not-so-idyllic childhood on a horse farm in the town of Lafayette in Indiana despite loving, close knit family relations. One of the banes of his early existence came in the form of piano lessons. David says, "The repetitive scales and endless rotation of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' drove me insane and forced me to run away many days. I would walk the four miles home from my piano teacher's house down gravel roads and through cornfields 'til my mom finally agreed to not make me go back." He began practicing the piano on his own, teaching himself songs from the radio and the stacks of eclectic sheet music lying around the house and quickly began to pen his own tunes.

After leaving the University of Georgia at the age of 20, David travelled across the country delivering trucks, and began to read and write obsessively. By the time he went back to University of Georgia (to study computer science?), he started to develop his voice as a songwriter, often breaking in to the Fine Arts Building to play his wild, original music on a grand piano in the middle of the night. His subsequent jaunts led him to Westport, Connecticut, to perfect his bar tending and roofing skills and settled for a time in New York City and Venice Beach, California for further forays in mixology and bar napkin poetry, among other "jack of all trade" jobs, which then drove him to live off the land for a few years in a remote cabin on a mountain in Georgia. If his heart hadn't exploded at the age of 40, David reckons he would still be there...but chose to recover from his surgery in his hometown of Lafayette, Indiana. Last year (2015) at the age of 53, Corley released his debut album, Available Light, produced by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Hugh Christopher Brown.

Available Light has received nothing but international raves, comparing Corley’s vocals, music and lyrics to Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joseph Arthur, Tony Joe White, and Warren Zevon, among others. The album also landed on numerous Best Music of 2015 lists.

9 out of 10 stars! "..a striking new voice...raise a glass to Available Light... sound[s] like something wonderful recorded in about 1971, bringing to mind "Heart Of Gold." - UNCUT

"Available Light isn’t an album that grows on you. It hits you immediately and then just gets better from there." - Examiner.com

"a stone cold cracker, an instant classic....definitely an early contender for an album of the year." - Blabber 'n' Smoke

"This ability to switch easily from folk to rock, and everywhere in between, shows that David is not a one-trick pony." - Blues Blast Magazine

"It’s a cocktail of 100 proof Americana, country, blues and folk; a stunning storytelling triumph along the lines of Tom Waits and Lou Reed’s ‘Dirty Boulevard’." - Popdose

"brilliant debut album.... Corley’s deep, breathy vocals flow with emotion and soul, exposing beauty within that scruffy exterior." - No Depression 

"Corley’s raw phrasing is a bulldog that won’t let go, creating a blues rock experience that’s felt in the bones." - Music News Nashville

"a warm, engrossing collection of retro country-soul...There are nods to Van Morrison, the Stones, Dylan and Lou Reed, but Corley carries the album with his honesty and flair." - The Irish Times

Wednesday 25th May 2016

Price: £13 advance (+stbf)

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