Corey Kent

One Liner: Rockin' Nashville country from an ex-Voice competitor

Wikipedia Genre: Country

Home: Nashville

Poster Position: Level 4 (21) 
Weekend Two Only.  

Sunday.

Thoughts: Feels like this guy is perfect for next year's Two Step Inn Festival to play some rockin' country action for the ladies to yell along to.  His full name is actually Corey Kent White, and he rose to some level of fame by competing on The Voice in 2015.  In 2022, he shortened his name to Corey Kent and released his hit song "Wild as Her."  93.1 million streams.

Catchy little tune, seems like it would be a fun one to sing along (and he has live versions on Spotify so that you can hear how that would sound!), but also pretty generic new country stuff.  Mentions dirt roads, and apparently co-written by Morgan Wallen and someone named Colby Keeling.  The newest single is pretty good too - driving tune about how love is going to kill him.  

First album was 2020's From the West, and it has a similar sound to the rest of this.  Seems like he came out fully formed with this sort of Nashville sound intact in his voice.  He grew up in Oklahoma, idolizing Garth Brooks.  He got his first taste of fame performing at the Oklahoma State Fair when he was 11.  He graduated high school early at 16, went to Nashville briefly, but then moved back to go to Oklahoma State.  But then he ended up back in Nashville giving the music a go, and ended up on the Voice with Blake Shelton's team.  He did not win.  A bunch of singles followed that initial album, until his only other disc, 2021's '21.  That one has his second-most streamed tune, "Ain't My Day" with 11.3 million streams.

More rock and roll country action with those opening guitar licks.  That long haired dude has an even more generic new country singer voice, but Kent sounds just fine on that.  Again, pretty generic tune - "we drinkin' tonight!" "she took every last beer I had!"  "neon light!"  "I'll be hurtin' in the mornin'!"

If you are the Nashville country type, then this one is going to push all of your buttons and get you riled up.  For me, I'm probably not going to go to this show.