It’s been six years since Mississippi/Memphis-bred songwriter Cory Branan’s last officially released full-length album, 12 Songs, but we’re finally getting a follow-up. Last week, venerable Chicago indie Bloodshot Records announced it had signed Branan and would be releasing his third album, Mutt, sometime this spring.
“We’ve had our eye on Cory for just about as long as he’s been honing his air-tight, clever version of the perfect story-song,” Bloodshot publicist Josh Zanger wrote in a release announcing the signing. “So after falling in love with a demo of his new material, we jumped at the chance to add him to the fold.”
“We had been negotiating for about three months,” Branan says, by phone from Nashville yesterday afternoon, saying that he finally signed the deal in December while in Chicago for a gig.
Mutt was recorded in San Francisco a couple of years ago and has been in limbo while Branan talked to various labels, finally finding a deal he liked with Bloodshot.
