| Corey Crowder | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | A Farewell To Arms |
| Origin | Georgia |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Labels | Tooth & Nail Records (2008-2009) |
| Website | http://www.coreycrowder.net/ |
Corey Crowder is a singer from Georgia. He released several independent recordings and was signed to Tooth & Nail Records for 2008 and 2009.
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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.[1]
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.[2] He toured with Lee DeWyze from June 19 through July 1, 2011.[3]