Published: Friday, 17 January 2025 22:53 | Written by NI Rocks |
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Rising Country-Rock star Cory Marks released his third album, “Sorry For Nothing” through Better Noise Music on 6th December. He also recently announced a concert date for The Cathouse in Glasgow on 18th March, following on from a short tour of Europe and an appearance at C2C in London.
I managed to arrange a Zoom call with Cory on 16th January to chat about the new album, the upcoming tour and his musical career to date. You can listen to that interview on the Friday NI Rocks Show uploaded on 17th January
The Show is now available on our MixCloud page with a reduced number of Cory Marks tracks to meet their upload requirements and it has also been transcribed and posted below if you prefer to read it.
CORY MARKS - (Make My) Country Rock – Harder (ft Sully Erna, Travis Tritt and Mick Mars)
Interview with CORY MARKS Part 1 (8 min)
CORY MARKS – Sorry For Nothing
Interview with CORY MARKS Part 2 (12 min)
CORY MARKS – Late Night of Drinking Again
Interview with CORY MARKS Part 3 (10 min)
CORY MARKS – 17
EVA UNDER FIRE – Unstoppable (ft Cory Marks)
CORY MARKS - Out in the Rain (ft Lzzy Hale)
CORY MARKS – Snowbirds
CORY MARQUARDT - Smartphone
MICHAEL MONROE - Dead Jail or Rock n Roll
D.A.D. - Sleeping My Day Away
SEA HAGS - Half The Way Valley
XYZ - Take What You Can
RISE AGAINST - Last Man Standing
TREMONTI - Tomorrow We Will Fall
ROBERT JON & THE WRECK - Ashes in the Snow
WHITEABBEY - Ireland’s Final Witch
NI ROCKS – Hi Cory, thanks for taking some time to talk to us at Rock Radio NI. I’ve a few things I wanted to chat about, but we’ll start with the new album - “Sorry For Nothing” which was released through Better Noise Music on 6th December. You’ve worked again with Kevin and Kane Churko at The Hideout studio, but also with some other big names. Can you tell us who you’ve worked with on the album?
CORY - Yeah, so this album started in 2021, I think it was February 2021 up in Mount Charleston, Nevada; which was very familiar to home because there's a lot of snow up there. We came in from Las Vegas with the Churko guys, and we went up to their cabin. It was about a 40 minute drive and 9000 feet elevation and took us about two hours to shovel out the cabin to get in there. So that was quite the experience. And then about a year after that, I went down to Nashville and did a bunch of writing and eventually worked with producer Kile Odell, who wrote a couple songs with one of them being “Guilty”, that's on this new record. And of course, the great Andrew Baylis down in Nashville, who produces Jelly Roll and Brantley Gilbert and a whole bunch of other acts down in Nashville. So, it's very unique with this record. You know, the 13 songs that are on it, I chose them personally out of probably around between 80 or 100 songs that I wrote since 2021 through COVID and all that stuff. But what also makes it unique is that there's technically 3 producers on there. There's Kevin Churko, Kile Odell and Andrew Baylis. So I think it makes it just that much more unique.
NI ROCKS – Most of the tracks on the previous album “Who I Am” were co written by yourself and the Churkos. There were a few you wrote yourself. Who has been involved in the writing process this time?
CORY - Of course, yeah. The Churko boys, you know. You know there's JT Harding and Steve Brown of Trixter, Aaron Gillespie, Riley Thomas. Who else? Who else am I missing here? You know, there's a few that I wrote myself, of course. There's Jacob Bryant and Carson Chamberlain. You know, just a bunch of great writers from the Churkos all the way down to my Nashville family. So I'm really grateful and excited to have these songs that I've co-written or written myself on this record. It's been a lot of fun, great new friendships and some long friendships.
NI ROCKS - Yeah. It's a fantastic album I have to say.
CORY - Thank you.
NI ROCKS – You’ve already mentioned it, but my next question was that your previous album “Who I Am” was released back in August 2020 and I was going to ask when you started working on the new one, but you said there that it was 2021. So, basically the year after the last one was when you started working on the new one?
CORY - Yeah, because that record Kevin, Kane and I started writing right after I got off the Toby Keith tour right across Canada, his last Canadian tour. I was direct support for him for a few shows up in Canada and I toured the rest of the summer and then in September of 2015, I went down to Las Vegas and started working with the Churko boys for the first time and the first two songs we wrote were “Outlaws and Outsiders” and “Blame it on the Devil”. So, by the time the album came out, I mean, you know, these songs were anywhere from three to five years old already. So, I was already itching to go. I never really stopped writing, coming up with ideas, so once that album came out, I was kind of gearing up for the next one. And that was eventually the EP “I Rise”, which is only 6 tracks. But, here we are at the end of 2024 releasing “Sorry for Nothing” and now start the New Year 2025 with a brand new record and you know we're going to see where this one takes me.
NI ROCKS – At the start of 2024 you released a track called “A Different Kind of Year” and at the time it was stated that the track would be included on the new, at that time unnamed album. The track hasn’t actually made it onto the album – what was the reason for that?
CORY - We released it as a single with a video. I was doing a Canadian tour - it was 32 shows and I think 43 days across Canada, so we wanted to have a single out. But I just had so much music. The album was originally supposed to be 18 or 20 tracks, so we backed it up and cut it back down to 13. So the plan is to have another album, another 13 maybe 14 track album come out here in 2025 at some some point. So there's a lot of music and I guess only so many songs we can put on a record.
NI ROCKS – The first tracks actually released from the new album were “Guilty”, “Drunk When I’m High” and “(Make My) Country Rock”. Those tracks include the two from the new album that you’ve collaborated with other artists on this time around. Mick Mars and Travis Tritt had also appeared on “Outlaws & Outsiders” (from the album “Who I Am” – alongside Ivan Moody from Five Finger Death Punch). Had you specifically wanted to work with those two again?
CORY - I did yeah, because I knew that “(Make My) Country Rock” was that song. It was the next “Outlaws and Outsiders” for me. The band loved it. My team loved it and thought that was that strong, country rock unified anthem. And when I was writing in Nashville, I had the opportunity to go over to Mick's house and hang out with him. And I was actually one of the first people to hear his new solo album, which is really cool. And he wanted to hear some songs that I've been writing while I was down there. And I actually had a demo of “(Make My) Country Rock” and I showed it to him and he loved the track. And since he loved it, I had to ask him if he'd be on it. And he said sure, man, that song kicks ass, let's see what we can do. And a week later I got his guitar tracks and I thought once the label decided this was going to be the lead single or the big one. It was going to be around 5 years of “Outlaws and Outsiders”, so I said, well, why don’t we make a reunion out of it. I had a great conversation with Travis Tritt for a good hour over the phone while I was on this Canadian tour sometime in middle of February last year and he just loved the song. And of course, with his Georgian accent said, ‘well Corey, it worked pretty good last time, didn't it? So let’s do it again’ and so he was on it. So here I got Mick. I got Travis. And of course, I had to get Mr Moody. Five Finger Death Punch , unfortunately, but fortunately for them, were on tour over in Germany with Metallica doing their world tour so they couldn't get in the studio and we couldn't get him on. There was a number of rock artists that were brought to my attention, but one stuck out more than any and that was Sully Erna of Godsmack. Knowing that he's a big Rush fan, we're both singer songwriters, but drum as well and do drum solos in our shows. You know, being a hockey player growing up as a kid, there was always Godsmack in the room getting us all jacked up for the game. I wasn't sure if he was actually going to be doing it, but sure enough, about a week after his name came up. I got a text from Sully Erna. A nice long beautiful text saying. Dude, the song kicks ass. This song is going to be big for you. It's going to do really well and basically thank you so much for having me on it. And he ended it with I think I might love the song more than you do. So I thought that was pretty cool getting a text from Sully Erna of Godsmack saying that. So we got the boys together and man, this song kicks and now you know you have it. There's the original “(Make My) Country Rock” and of course the ‘Harder’ version where we all sing a little louder, a little bigger and amped up those guitars and made the drums a little bigger too.
NI ROCKS – At this point I thought we’d play something from “Sorry For Nothing”. Do you want to pick a track and maybe tell us something about it?
CORY - I would say probably the lead single, not the lead single, but the title track -the title of the album, “Sorry for Nothing”. It's a very special song to me. One of my favourite writes ever down in Nashville with Aaron Gillespie and Riley Thomas. We really dug deep for this one and this is just for any small town, kid, boy or girl; trying to do great things but get caught up in, you know, small town shit, if you will. And all the good and bad in your life happens for one reason or another, and that way it really shapes and forms who you are as a person. In my case, who I am as an artist as well. So this is kind of a bit of a walk through life for me growing up in this not small town and kind of where I've been, what I've been through, and where I am today and for that, I'm “Sorry for Nothing”.
NI ROCKS – I mentioned earlier that the last album (“Who I Am”) came out in 2020 and you’ve been extremely busy since then – between tours, singles and EPs - but you were also involved in the movie ‘The Retaliators’. How did that come about?
CORY - Well, of course that's a Better Noise movie. And there's probably 80% of the label that's in this movie. And of course, Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach being the bigger stars. I played the role of Jimmy the bartender, the Five Finger Death Punch bartender for the boys in their club. They asked me to be part of it and I've always wanted to act and be part of movies, so I thought this was a good step forward and getting the opportunity to hang with all the Five Finger Death Punch guys and being on a real movie set and working with Michael Lombardi of course, and everybody else. It was just a whole lot of fun, and I thought was a great opportunity to not only get some acting involved, but to have my songs playing – “Blame It On the Double” and “Burn it Up” featured in the movie and on the soundtrack.
NI ROCKS – Had you done any acting before that and is that something that you’d be interested in doing more of?
CORY - I'd definitely like to do more. I've done some side acting and of course, you know, whenever you're recording music videos and especially ones that I've done, whether that's flying an aeroplane or, I have the mistress in a video, or you're driving a 600 horsepower Dodge Challenger burning the tyres up and down a runway like in the music video for “Drive”. I try to kind of envision it and shape it like a like a short film. I've probably 15 or 20 music videos out now. So I've had my experience in acting one way or another, but definitely would love to be in some sort of big movie and play a bigger role in great movie in the future.
NI ROCKS – The original soundtrack includes two of your tracks – the version of “Blame It On The Double” that features Tyler Connolly and Jason Hook and a track called “Burn It Up”. Both of those had been released previously. “Burn It Up” was on the EP “I Rise”. Had that been written specifically for the movie or was it on the EP before the movie came out?
CORY - Yeah, those were songs that, like I said back in 2015, Kevin and I, when we started writing the album for “Who I Am”, the first two songs were “Outlaws and Outsiders” and “Blame It On The Double”, so that was a song that was written and ready to go long before the film and “Burn It Up” was just something I wrote, with my career in mind and after COVID just to try to motivate not only myself, but all the listeners and anyone listening to get out there and rock and as Rush would say roll the bones and burn it up, so I think it just matched the energy and the script of that movie very well. So it was an easy fit for the movie and I was glad it made it onto the soundtrack.
NI ROCKS – I actually interviewed one of your Better Noise record label mates, who also appeared in ‘The Retaliators’ movie, a couple of years ago – Amanda / Eva from the band Eva Under Fire. She has a great voice and you later worked with her on a new version of the band’s track “Unstoppable”. Did they approach you to work on that or did that come about?
CORY - Yeah, they came and approached me and wanted me to feature on a couple songs and one of them was “Unstoppable”. I loved the Bonnie and Clyde reference in the song and of course there was a bit of country gtit and storytelling especially when you mentioned Bonnie and Clyde. And Amanda told me the story behind that song, and I'm very close with my parents and my family; so when I found out it was kind of written about her mom and dad, I thought that was very special and so knew it was going to rock radio and they really wanted me on it. I was more than happy to be part of it and help out with that song and it was a lot of fun shooting the music video in Detroit. It was a good time.
NI ROCKS – I know Amanda is a huge Lzzy Hale fan – as we all are – and you actually worked with her on your second album on the track “Out In The Rain”. I presume she was someone you’d specifically wanted to work with at the time?
CORY - Yeah, I've always heard the name Lzzy Hale and obviously Halestorm and she actually worked with one of my favourites in country music today, Mr Eric Church. And when I saw that performance man, I was like dude, it would be so cool to work with her. And you know this song “Out in the Rain” is a very powerful. Originally written by Kane Churko and I wanted to rewrite some parts to allow myself to make it more my story and what I've been through. Kane and I were kind of going through or had gone through similar situations, with someone we love that unfortunately gets caught up in addiction. And of course there's mental health in there and the song kind of speaks for itself. Lzzy, she just killed it. She's an incredible singer and of course, a really cool and down to earth person. And she's been very sweet to me and of course her guy Joe as well and the whole band. I've gotten to tour with Halestorm across the US for several dates and we actually played Rock the Loughs this past summer together. I was direct support for them and man they just kill it. They're a great band with great sound and great songs. But the cool thing about that is during my acoustic set I invited Lzzy to come sing “Out in the Rain” with me. So we did that and it was so special. I got to sing with her for the first time. And it was in front of a few thousand people. It was just me, her, our song and my acoustic guitar. We just had a very special moment there and it was a lot of fun and a really cool experience.
NI ROCKS – Is there anyone else who would be high on your wish list of people you’d like to work with? Obviously, you’ve worked with quite a few people in the past. Who would be high in your wishlist?
CORY - I'd love to work with someone who's influenced me so much in the country music genres, Eric Church. There's also guys like Brad Paisley. You know I'm a huge Bryan Adams fan, so I would love to do something with Bryan Adams. I think that would be really cool and there's so many more out there. In a way, I’m very versatile in the sense of what I listen to and what I like to play, so there are many genres. Someone like Lainey Wilson who is country through and through, but definitely has that that grit about her, which I think is a lot of fun. And you’ve got that singer-songwriter vibe of Kacey Musgraves and I've always been a fan of her. So there's a handful, but those are the ones off the top my head that I think would be a lot of fun to work with. And maybe a collab with Nickelback, perhaps, - just those rock Canadian vibes. And they've been a great success in making a bit of a comeback here the last couple of years. So I think those would be my top choices.
NI ROCKS - They're a fantastic live band. We saw them in Glasgow, where you are playing, at the start of last year, and they're such a good live band.
CORY - Oh yeah, man, they kick ass. I got to open for them up here in Canada. A big festival called ‘Boots and Hearts’ and it was cool to meet Chad and the guys and of course, playing in front of 30- 40 thousand people before Nickelback and Hardy was a pretty cool moment.
NI ROCKS – In 2023 you released a track called “Snowbirds” dedicated to the Canadian Forces air demonstration team. You’re a pilot yourself and I believe at one time wanted to pursue a career in the forces. That song and making the video for it must have been quite personal.
CORY - Yeah, very personal. I've been a fan of the Snowbirds and aeroplanes since I was a young kid, specifically them. When I was eight years old I was a pen pal with one of the Snowbirds who was from North Bay, my hometown. And now him and his wife come to my shows, which is just a really cool full circle. Growing up, and still to this day they're my rock stars as much as they think in some ways I'm theirs. So it's been a really cool bonding experience with the team since I was a little kid, but more or less when I really got involved with the team in 2017 and getting the opportunity to fly with them was an absolute bucket list and dream come true that I'll remember for a lifetime. Just being able to join them at some of their parties and of course, the air shows and really feel like part of their family is something really important for me and special to me, I've always been a supporter and a fan of not only the Canadian forces, of Snowbirds, but all the men and women who sacrifice, sometimes in some cases their life, but their time and everything that comes with it being part of the forces; not only here in Canada, but abroad, in the US and Europe as well. So I'm a big supporter of our military and those who serve and it's great to be part of that and basically pay tribute the best way I can and that's through music and a song specifically dedicated to them. And that was just a real dream come true, honestly, to be able to write a song for them, to them and get some video of myself and my time flying with the team which was a dream come true.
NI ROCKS – We’ll pause to play another track from the new album now. Again, do you want to pick one and tell us a little about it.
CORY - You know, I would say one of my favourites, the one that I wrote myself. This is one of those songs, I wrote probably 7 or 8 years ago when I going through some, some stuff, as I'm sure all of us boys have; and girls do too. I've often gone through heartache and such to find myself hanging out with Sir Jack Daniels and sometimes a little too often, a little too much. But I remember waking up one morning, walking down the stairs in the house that I was living in at the time and my guitar was there and an empty bottle of Jack Daniels was on the table. And I had my good old pal Merle Haggard in mind. And that was one of those songs that I really wrote straight from the heart to the pen and paper. And that was “Late Night of Drinking Again”. And that's probably the most country song on this record. I wrote that one with my favourite Merle Haggard in mind. And you know that song's always a special one to me because I remember, after I wrote it and made a little audio recording on my iPhone, I brought it up to mum and dad's. And we were kind of just hanging out and said, I want to show them a song. I remember showing them the song and my dad said, ‘wow, I’ve never heard that one before’. I said ‘what do you mean’, and he goes ‘well I've heard almost every Merle Haggard song, but I've never heard you cover that one. What album?’ And I said, ‘well, that's because it's not a Merle Haggard song.’ And then I remember my dad saying ‘what, wait, did you write that’ and me saying, yeah ‘I wrote it this morning, about an hour ago, and really wanted to show you’. He goes ‘holy crap I thought that was Merle Haggard’. So that to me, coming from Dad, that was a pretty cool compliment. And this is a song I've been wanting to record for such a long time, pretty much since I wrote it. And this is a record I thought this could be my “My Whiskey, Your Wine”, which you know on the debut album, “Who I Am”, that I always try to pay some sort of homage or tribute to Merle Haggard as best I can with the real classic country sound and country song. Like “My Whiskey Your Wine” and this new one here on the “Sorry For Nothing” album, “Late Night of Drinking Again”.
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NI ROCKS – My wife and I have been fans for a few years so I’m delighted to say that we’re getting a chance to see you perform live this year. We’re flying over to see you play The Cathouse in Glasgow on March 18th. You haven’t been to Scotland before I presume?
CORY - I've never been, but my brother played hockey over there for a few years. He played in Coventry, Sheffield and he spent some time in Scotland as well; and in Germany. But I never got the opportunity to skip over and watch some games and spend some time over there. But, I've always wanted to make my way over there. There’s some family history and heritage there and I've always just wanted to see that part of the world. So I'm so excited. He said so many great things about Scotland and I know that his team would play my songs during the game too; which is really cool. So I'm hoping a lot of the hockey fans over there are going to be coming to the show and we pack the place at the Cathouse in Glasgow.
NI ROCKS – I'm sure it'll sell out and looking forward to it. We live just outside Belfast, but quite often go to Glasgow for gigs because not everybody comes here unfortunately. You’re also playing the Country 2 Country festival in London on 15th March, but not it seems the Glasgow or Belfast C2C shows? Can you tell us are there are likely to be more UK or Ireland dates announced? Or can you not tell us that yet?
CORY - I'm trying to add on as much as I can; that's how we ended up with the Glasgow show. And my management said why Scotland? I said, well, if you look at the comments and the history there with my brother, I have a feeling we could we could sell some tickets there; I know I got fans there. So if I'm over, we got to make it happen, and sure enough, maybe three days later we got Glasgow - we got the Cathouse. So I was so stoked about that, and I do want to play all the other C2Cs - if I don't do it this year, then definitely next year. But I'm hoping that this “Sorry for Nothing” tour coming over to the UK and Germany and France and everywhere over there is successful enough that maybe I make that skip across the pond again at the end of the year; maybe in the fall and play more over there because there has definitely been so much support by the fans and radio stations over there. I just want to get over there and play for everybody, so I hope that we add more dates, if not on this tour, then at some point later on this year.
NI ROCKS – Those UK gigs are preceded by five shows in Germany, the Netherlands and France. Those are your first shows in Europe aren’t they?
CORY - They are yeah. I've never played over there so, like I said, I hope that the rooms are full and in Scotland's case, like you said, a sold out show and I'm able to come back over and keep coming back over to come play for everybody over there. I'm super excited and I got a big smile on my face just thinking about it, so I can't wait.
NI ROCKS - Are you bringing merch with you on the tour?
CORY – Yes sir, I will have merch with me. We got hats, shirts, CDs and vinyls so far, but I'm actually heading to my merch shop right now to talk about some “Sorry for Nothing” T-shirts too, and see what else we can come up with and then bring over to Europe.
NI ROCKS – Looking back. Your first album “This Man” was released ten years ago this May. It’s available on Spotify, Amazon etc under your actual surname – and I hope that I pronounce this right - Cory Marquardt
CORY – You know I’ve been called worse things and that’s pretty good. (Laughs) That’s one of the good ways, but it is pronounced Marquardt – like mark my word. But I've heard Markhardiet, Marquette, Marquiet, Marquardette. So that's kind of why we went with Marks. It just seemed a whole lot easier and also that was a bit of a nickname I got from my hockey team mates just for short was Marks. When we came up with the idea and brought it up to Kevin, saying what about Cory Marks? That's great, that's easy, it's easy to pronounce, it's easy to spell, it's brandable. And so we went with that. But, “This Man” – wow, ten years already. Time flies.
NI ROCKS - Has there been any thought to reissuing that album? It is quite hard to get – I have the CD. Any thoughts of reissuing it through Better Noise?
CORY - You know what, I get asked that more and more as time goes on and a lot in the last two years. That record is one I'm still really proud of and I think there's some really great songs on there that never really got to see the light of day. It was through a smaller, independent Canadian label. so unfortunately there wasn't big money behind it or a big plan per se. But definitely some songs, like for example “Smartphone”, I think it's more relevant now than ever. So if anyone listening hasn't heard that song yet, go check it out – “Smartphone”. There's a there's a video online too - a music video for that. I think it's more relatable now, more than ever. But there's some really great tunes on there that I have thought about bringing back to life. Songs like “21” would be a lot of fun that to bring back and play live. Maybe if more people get to find that record and we see those stream numbers going up and those requests happen, maybe that's something we could look into.
NI ROCKS – You’ve some Canadian tour dates in May, but what else does 2025 have in store for Cory Marks?
CORY - We're pitching for a few US tours right now and looks like we might be going across the US in April. I don't have specific details on that. There's that Quebec tour, which is part of the “Sorry for Nothing” tour, that happens in May, but looks like we might add to that in my home province of Ontario. And we're looking at hopping on a country tour as well across the US at some point this year. I'm just hoping for a packed festival season from June to September, along with these tours from March all the way into May. And who knows, maybe some new music too.
NI ROCKS – Towards the end of last year you did a tour with Theory for a Deadman doing an unplugged acoustic set. Would you be keen to do an electric tour this time or do you like doing the acoustic stuff too?
CORY - It's a really cool experience for me. Again, as a big Brian Adams fan, it's really nice to see these songs stripped down and performed almost how they were written with just you, your guitar and the song. And if it can captivate an audience or turn some heads with just that, I think that means there's something special there - in the song. So it gives you a good idea, especially for songs like at the time performing “Sorry for Nothing” acoustic and just hearing the fans feedback from that song, whether it was the meet and greet after or a couple of people out of their seats when that song was done and then they tell me how much that song really hit them or affected them. It gives you a good idea, especially when you don't have music released yet of I think this one's gonna do good. So it's always fun. I always enjoy the acoustic set, but obviously having the band and the boys up there with you and making lots of noise is a lot of fun too.
NI ROCKS – You’ve obviously just released “Sorry For Nothing”, just last month in December, but you’re obviously already thinking or planning for album number four? Do you think it might appear sometime this year – or possibly next year?
CORY - I wouldn’t be opposed to it. Maybe a late summer to early fall release. I already have the album ready to go. I'm going to Nashville to do some more writing to find probably about another three songs I'd like to add in the mix and then we got another 13-14 track record that's ready to go. So we'll see what the plans are here in the next few months and I would be happy to release more music.
NI ROCKS – That’s all the questions that I have. Thanks again for taking some time to chat with us. We’ll finish with another track from the new album. And again, can you pick a track and tell us something about it.
CORY - Sure. First, thanks a lot Nigel for taking the time and wanting to chat with me. I'm looking forward to the Cathouse in Glasgow. So, thank you. And I'd say if we're going to pick another track; one of my favourites is “17”. You know it's got that kind of Cody Johnson vibe at the start, very, very country fiddle and rim shot on the drums. I wrote that one with Carson Chamberlain and Jacob Bryant. And Carson has written so many hits for so many great artists like Brooks & Dunn and Joe Nichols, but most recently, Zach Top who's been big in the country world. So it was great writing with guys like that and that's really just one of my favourite songs on the record – “17”. It’s a reflection of life, of being that young kid, just a little wild and crazy and not really knowing what you're looking for. At that time in your life, we all fall in love and think that it is going to be the one, but typically, there's usually reality checks that pop in once you get into college and life hits you. I'm hoping that people listen to that song and get to reflect and look back on some good times and great memories and just a life well lived. And really that song's a mix of Cody Johnson and it's almost got that Bryan Adams type chorus where it's a nice melodic, soothing verse with a bit of a power chorus. It's definitely one of my favourite songs on the record and one of my favourites to play live - it’s “17”.
