Interview with David Corley for No Depression

Thank you Lisa Knight for this truly great interview with David Corley!

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David Corley

My interview with David Corley regarding his debut album, Available Light posted on No Depression today.  See the article and full interview here: http://nodepression.com/interview/david-corley-wishes-right-star-and-debut-album-soars

I’m thrilled and honored to be a part of his journey.  Looking forward to watching his album continue to soar!  Many thanks to Bernadette Quigley for the opportunity to interview him, and to Paul Kerr over at Blabber ‘N’ Smoke for catching my eye with your glowing review of David’s album! Check it out: https://paulkerr.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/david-corley-available-light/

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FIVE 2015 Independent Music Award nominations! Life in a Blender, David Corley, Suzanne Jarvie and Amanda Homi!

New York, NY – It is my absolute pleasure to congratulate four QuigleyMedia clients on being nominated by the The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards! The nominations are:

Life In A Blender – We Already Have Birds That Sing – Eclectic EP (produced by Kenny Siegal)
Suzanne Jarvie – Spiral Road – Concept Album (produced by Hugh Christopher Brown)
David Corley – Dog Tales – Eclectic Song (Prod: Hugh Christopher Brown)
Amanda Homi – Una Promesa – Latin Song (Prod: Graham Hawthorne)
Amanda Homi – Ladri Di Biciclette – Story Song (Prod: Graham Hawthorne)

Life in a Blender’s ‘We Already Have Birds that Sing’ produced by Kenny Siegal – nominated for Best Eclectic EP

Suzanne Jarvie’s debut album ‘Spiral Road” produced by Hugh Christopher Brown nominated in the Concept Album category…

The eclectic mix of established and rising talent nominated in The 14th IMAs were culled from thousands of submissions that were released during the program’s eligibility period, between June, 2013 thru December 2014. Nominated along with David Corley, Suzanne Jarvie, Life in a Blender and Amanda Homi are a diverse group of recording artists including Garland Jeffreys, Bent Knee, Oran Etkin, Dawn Landes, Antigone Rising, Flaco Jiménez & Max Baca, Rachael Sage, Pompeya, Eden Brent, Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna, and Spottiswoode & His Enemies.

Winners will be determined by a panel of influential artist and industry judges including Amanda Palmer, Lunice, Suzanne Vega, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jane Monheit, Arturo Sandoval, Melissa Auf der Maur, Shelby Lynne, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Lila Downs, Chris Wood & Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Judy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Dennis Diken (The Smithereens), Adam Agee (Stellar Kart), Nathan Currin (Family Force 5), Deon Rexroat (Anberlin), Jonathan Steingard (Hawk Nelson), Terry McBride, (Nettwerk Music Group), Bob Ludwig (Gateway Mastering), Anthony DeCurtis (Rolling Stone), Benji Rogers (PledgeMusic), among others.

IMA VOX POPULI (POPULAR VOTE)


In addition to the Winners selected by the Artist & Industry judges, music fans from around the world have until Friday, July 31, 2015 to vote for their favorite Nominees. You just have to register your email address and set up a password and log in – if you’re not already registered. Once confirming your email address, please consider voting for:

Life in a Blender : http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/EP/Eclectic
Suzanne Jarvie: http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/Album/Concept-Album
David Corley: http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/Song/Eclectic

Amanda Homi: http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/Song/Latin
Amanda Homi: http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/Song/Story-Song

Please also consider voting for our friends, Spottiswoode & His Enemies. Their new album English Dream was nominated under the Adult Contemporary album:
http://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/14th/Album

Amanda Homi was nominated in two song categories: Latin song and Story Song

David Corley’s “Dog Tales” nominated in Best Eclectic Song category

Let’s rock the vote!

David Corley. Available Light.

Absolute Rave for David Corley’s Available Light from Paul Kerr/Blabber ‘n’ Smoke…

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It’s not often that one comes across a debut album from a 53 year old. It’s even rarer for that album to be a stone cold cracker, an instant classic (if such a thing exists), an album that immediately rewards and then gets better on repeated listens. Well, David Corley has achieved this with Available Light, ten songs of experience and at 53 Corley has a lot of experience under his belt. Raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Corley attended the University of Georgia leaving at the age of 20 after a series of “ecstatic visionary and mystical experiences” if we are to believe the biography. There followed 30 years of wanderlust and odd jobs coupled with a voracious reading and writing habit. Following cardiac problems he returned to Lafayette which brings us up to date and to the album.
Produced by Canadian Hugh Christopher Brown Available Light is an album that…

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David Corley lands on EuroAmericana chart at No. 5!

Lafayette, Indiana singer-songwriter DAVID CORLEY is climbing the EuroAmericana chart. Corley landed on the chart at No. 7 in February and is now in the No. 5 spot for the March chart, keeping fine company with James McMurtry, Steve Earle, Gretchen Peters, Rhiannon Giddens, Amy Speace, among others.

Corley’s debut album, Available Light, beautifully produced by the Canadian multi-instrumentalist Hugh Christopher Brown, is receiving international acclaim and much airplay in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, including spins on:

BBC’s Late Show with Stuart Bailie
BBC Scotland (Iain Anderson Show)
Tin Can Review (UK)
Bonanza and Son (UK)
Mike Ritchie on Sunday, Celtic Music Radio (Scotland)
Noel Casey, After Midnight (103.2 Dublin City FM)
Jan Wilhelm Bos’ Delta Rhythm (Netherlands)
Berrie Koetsier Songriver, RTV IJssel-mond 104.1 FM (Netherlands)

Continental Record Services is releasing and distributing Corley’s Available Light throughout Europe. Please stream and purchase in Europe here.

For more information, visit David’s website.