Album review: CORY MARKS – Sorry For Nothing

Century Media [Release date 06.12.24]

Album number three from Cory Marks, with his last album, 2020’s ‘Who I Am’, making the UK and Australian country charts, plus number 16 in the album charts in his native Canada.

The single of this album, ‘(Make My) Country Rock’ (which features guests Sully Erna, Travis Tritt and Mick Mars), made the upper reaches of the US hard rock and mainstream rock charts. Cory Marks is one of the few artists to fully embrace the country and rock genres.

It is a rocking ride for sure, with the aforementioned ‘(Make My) Country Rock’ a real foot stomping anthem and little surprise it has done well on airplay and playlists. A harder version of this song lurks towards the end of the album.

The other guest is DL of Bad Wolves who pops up on ‘Guilty’, adding a modern rock air to proceedings. Speaking of modern-ish music, a cover of the Foos ‘Learn To Fly’ rounds off the album. Decent cover with the country guitar embellishments making it that extra bit special.

The title track is the sort of country rock Nickelback try to do, and to be fair don’t often succeed at yet, yet Cory Marks makes it seem easy on this song. He has that country twang to his singing, along with some seriously heavy drumming and a perfect guitar solo midway through.

Really good album of mood swings, as ‘1949’ and ‘Late Night Drinking Again’ (always a good country song topic!), are easy on the ear, strong on the storytelling. In between these two sits a rebel rousing hard rocker, ‘Lit Up’. A single if ever there was one and a song to play loud.

Cory Marks has a winning album on his hands, full of memorable songs. Some country purists may be heading for the nearest Patsy Cline album, but the rest of us can enjoy this album that has a rocking heart and a country soul. ****

Review by Jason Ritchie

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