"Sometimes", Corey Crowder says with a laugh when referring to his contemporary rocking, funky and melodic music, "I think I would have fit in better if I'd come up thirty years ago." There's irony in that statement. With over five million plays of the songs on his MySpace page, major television placements of his songs, and recording and publishing contracts now in hand, Corey, at age 26, is virtually a model of how to commence a musical career, 21st century style. Commentators have described his music variously as Southern rock, alternative country, funky storytelling, or even jam band. By any name, it recalls roots rock and soul sounds of the sixties and seventies updated for today.