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Cory Morrow returns to College Station
to record new music video, live album
Right: Morrow shown at a concert at Shadow Canyon last
year. Tonight’s performance is among those that will be used
in his next video and a live CD to be released in April.
BY SCOTT HARRIS
The Battalion
long with the rise in popularity
of Texas music, it seems there is
a new breed of Texas outlaws
running rampant through the Lone Star
state, and Cory Morrow has a strong ar
gument to be the ringleader. Instead of
playing his Jan. 29 show in Conroe, he
spent the night in jail.
Clay Claflin, Mor
row’s manager, said the
incident stemmed from
a bad parking job by
Morrow.
“Cory drove to go
eat,” Claflin said. “He
had the truck with the
trailer on it and 1 guess it
was sticking out a bit.
The police came to write
him a ticket and they ran
his plates and saw that
he had a few unpaid
tickets. The whole thing
sucked; we went down
and paid the warrants,
but we couldn’t get him
out until 11 the next
morning.”
Despite the fact that
Texas musicians have
historically had the rep
utation for being outside
the law, Morrow said
the country music scene
is moving away from Nashville and to
ward Texas.
“It’s turning. The worm is turning,”
Morrow said. “It’s making a change to
ward us. We’re the big thing right now.
1 think it’s all going to focus on us. Pat
[Green], myself. Jack [Ingram] and
Charlie [Robison.] Everybody that’s
coming up out of the state.”
Texans have always enjoyed their
independence and freedom, and Mor
row is no different, only he has a dif
ferent kind of perspective.
“The whole idea we’re pushing is
the independent thing,” Morrow said.
“We don’t have a record label and
we’re not going to go to a record label.
We see what they do and how they do
it. We believe that if you have enough
money you can do whatever you want.”
Instead of big record deals and cor
porate funding. Morrow relies on his
fan base for support.
“The crowds are really liking what our
kind of music is doing,” Morrow said.
“Pat, Owen, Roger [Creager] — we are
all on our own. We.need to take advantage
of it and do as much as we can ourselves.”
Morrow’s recent success has skyrock
eted him straight to the top of the mar
quee. Instead of playing second fiddle, he
is now headlining most of his shows.
“We’ve had an amazing stroke of
luck,” Morrow sgid. “We’ve been get
ting larger crowds and selling more
CDs. Everywhere we go it seems there
are a few more people than there were
the last time. That’s always what you*
want to have happen.”
Morrow has been playing for six
years and has seen his success gradual
ly come to fruition.
“We’ve seen it real slow, real grad
ual,” Morrow said. “Literally, in the
past couple of months, every time we
go somewhere the number of people
have doubled. It’s a real good thing. I
can’t complain — there’s a lot of guys
who have played a lot longer than I
have who don’t enjoy my success.”
Morrow said he cannot place his fin
ger on the reason why his success has
grown in the past few months.
“I don’t know how to explain it,
we’ve got a much better band, and
we’ve had more fun,” Morrow said. “I
know I’ve had more fun; I enjoy screw
ing with the crowd more. I think I’m
See Morrow on Page 6.
What: Cory Morrow Video Shoot
When: Thursday 8 p.m.
Where: Shadow Canyon
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