Grown from the black dirt that Iowa is known for, Cory Waller and The Wicked Things are a
band of hard-working friends, sons and daughters of farmers and small-town folks. The band
has traversed the midwest sharing their brand of black dirt country music, sometimes the shows
The Wicked Things play have more people than those of their hometowns. The band's
namesake, Cory Waller, started playing music with bass player Ethridge Netz when they were in
middle school and honed his country craft with lead electric guitar player Ronley King in dives
and bars across Iowa in his 20s—joined by fierce vocalist and acoustic guitar player Emilee
Johnson, and the backbone of the band, drummer Kaleb Ferry. They write music and perform
for the people they grew up around.
This winter during a snowstorm, the band traveled to an Air B&B in Redfield, Iowa to write their
latest album named after the town. Snowed in, the band wrote the album only taking breaks at
the local watering hole Kilroy’s at the end of the nights. The band wrote songs from personal
experiences, theirs, and the people they grew up with in Northwest Iowa. “This is the most like
us we’ve ever sounded,” says frontman Cory Waller. The band's first full-length album is an
honest portrayal of life in the Midwest, with stories of past and lost loves, hardships, and having
a good time in the land where the tall corn grows. The album was recorded at Sonic Factory
Studios in Des Moines, IA with engineer and producer John Locker.
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