Title: From the Ground Up
Artist: Cory Mervin Coons
Release date: 2004
Available from: Bent Music, and Cory’s website
Artist website: www.corymervincoons.com
OK, what is in the water up there in Canada that makes guys voices sit up in the soprano range? Let’s just recap: there’s Neil Young’s strained falsetto and of course Geddy Lee’s castrasti-like rock-opera warbling and then there’s Anne Murray, oh wait she’s a chic right?
But seriously, in listening to Cory Mervin Coons’ 2004 release, From the Ground Up, you do get the sense that he is one more voice in a long line of male singers that have the ability to cut through the power chords of a hard drivin’ rock band. I must say that when I first played the CD it took me a while to stop comparing him to Bon Jovi. The band that Coons employs rocks hard in an Austin, Texas, alt. country style and leaves no doubt that guitar is king. Guitarist Michael Kelly lays down some very sweet slide riffs and Bryan Deruchie and Francis Thibodeau lock in the groove.
Besides the straight ahead rockers, Coons throws in some nice melodic ballads that are high on sentimentality and straight out of the Hallmark rack. I feel that Cory should move on down to Nashville and start writing for Shania when I listen to songs like Unanswered and Love Don’t Come Easy. Now a reader could take that as a slam or a compliment depending on what side of the aisle they sit on, but what I intend to say is that the afore mentioned songs are very mainstream and would fit well with today’s AAA radio country singers.
This CD is definitely worth a listening to if you lean towards the sounds of Neil Young, Bon Jovi, John Cougar Mellancamp, etc… I’m definitely looking forward to a new CD from the CMC Band.
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