Cory Kosel grew up in small-town Texas and spent his twenties working as an actor in New York City and Dallas, and he is now based in the DFW metro after being born and raised in Temple. His work draws on a literary background and places his country and folk songs in the tradition of John Prine with a distinctly surreal edge, and his music tells the story of a changed and changing Texas where cities have doubled in size and pastoral scenes have given way to urban sprawl.
The debut solo album Dispatch from the Edge of Town, out December 4th on Toast Toast Records, was entirely self-funded and recorded at Niles City Sound in Fort Worth, a studio known for its work with Leon Bridges, Paul Cauthen, and Jamestown Revival. The album features Robert Ellis, the Texas Piano Man, on the single “Machine of My Design”, which opens with fiddle and mandolin, settles into a country four-on-the-floor, includes crisp mandolin and violin solos, and presents compact narratives that raise themes of simulation, convenience and complacency before ending with lines about writing catchy songs and throwing down a challenge to anyone between the headphones.
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