It's like hot grease & warm pot liquor.
A modern songwriter inspired by the swampy grit, juke-joint swagger, and countrified twang of old-school American roots music, King Corduroy has been following the universe for years, making his own kind of "Cosmic Southern Soul" along the way.
It's a sound anchored by a genuine reverence for the good stuff — including Texas electric blues, Memphis soul, New Orleans voodoo funk, the Tulsa groove and Mississippi Delta blues and The Muscle Shoals Sound— yet updated to suit the unique experience of a storyteller, multi-instrumentalist, wandering troubadour and larger-than-life frontman who's lived everywhere from the Bible Belt to the Mexican Baja. Those travels play a central role on King Corduroy's fourth release, Avalon Ave., whose five songs match King Corduroy's colorful appearance — equal parts 1970s-era Leon Russell, Southern rock bluesman, and hippie mystic — with soulful performances and real-life stories sourced from his own rambles.
"It's all about storytelling," explains the musician, who was raised in Montgomery, Alabama, before logging time in cities like Austin, Los Angeles, Todos Santos, and Nashville. "I go around, I see stuff, and then I report it by telling these stories. There are different types of troubadours who have carried that tradition. Ernest Tubb was The Texas Troubadour. Woody Guthrie was The Dustbowl Troubadour. I'm a cosmic troubadour — The Cosmic Troubadour of Southern Soul."
“Soulful...like a young Leon Russell.”
— Billboard Magazine
“A little Dr. John, a little Leon Russell and a lot of cosmic country cool.”
— NPR Music
“Weaves the pillars of Americana music — swampy New Orleans voodoo funk, Texas blues, Memphis soul — into his self-described "cosmic" sound.”