The sound is filled out by a great cast of Nashville players including Matt Scibilia, Jon Graboff and Brad Pemberton of The Cardinals (Ryan Adams) and The Howlin Brothers. He’s also the guy who can get behind the boards and pull it off.” What Benson pulls off is an album of rich, authentic, rock and roll, drawing a straight line between the gospel and the blues of Cory’s youth, and classic rock. Brendan is really great at bringing direction and bringing something out of me that is almost indescribable. “We had just such a common language in the way we attacked music making. The two met while making Cory’s first album. Old Believer, the second LP from Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons, was recorded in Nashville and produced by a great singer songwriter in his own right, Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Or sometimes songs just come fully formed, usually if I’m really sleep-deprived and driving for whatever reason, it’s like a radio station that my brain picks up.” “Where a painter, in order to express himself, would reach for a canvas and paints, I go to the guitar and try to build it out. Those internal conversations are the seeds, the building blocks of his songs. For Cory, songwriting is a byproduct of existing. People like Cash, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding. This musical education put young Cory on a path that was well worn by the greats who came before him and influenced him. Along with the family’s spiritual doctrine came a musician uncle, who taught Cory about the blues: Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Sony Boy Williamson. “Mom played piano and organ, my dad did the preaching, the thing that my sister and I could add to the service was to sing.” As fate would have it, the kid was born to do it. He grew up in the iron range town of Babbit Minnesota, and the rural flatlands of Appleton Wisconsin. You can see it in his story – the son of a preacher, sheltered from pop music, raised on hymns and Johnny Cash. You can hear it in his music – there’s a wisdom beyond his years in that voice.
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