Album Release and nominations "The Dingoes Ate Our Record" released and nominated in three categories of 2017 WYCE "Jammie" Awards- Best Contemporary Folk, Best Album by New Artist, Album of the Year!
	Background Check Contemporary blues and folk artist Cory Cole landed on the West Michigan music scene with his band "The Troubled Souls" in 1999. Their debut album "Tell Me Where It Hurts" (intended as a marketing demo) made it's way to WYCE, where to the band's surprise it was nominated in the "Blues Album of the Year" catagory in the first annual Jammie Awards. Cory has three albums on the indie "White Feather" label based in Greenville, MI, with a fourth planned for release in summer 2013. A multiple award-winner in the Great Lakes Songwriting Contest (485 entries from U.S. and Canada), both Cory and Ralston Bowles represented Grand Rapids with Third Place (Cory) and Fifth Place (Ralston)awards in the most recent and final version of this contest. Cory continues as a performer/instructor at the Wheatland Music Festival in Remus, MI where he has taught workshops since 2005. Awards and Catalog: "Tell Me Where it Hurts" (2000) w/Cory Cole and the Troubled Souls (WYCE Jammie Award nominee "Blues Album of the Year") "I Got the Time" (2004) "Scenes From My Life" (2005) "Venus in the Water" (2008) Winner, Director's Award, Paramount Group Nashville, TN Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Songwriting Contest 2006 Finalist, GLSC 2009 Third Place Winner, GLSC 2011 January 2013- "Yonder Glory" selected for representation by Rex Benson Music Group. Rex had a #1 hit with Kenny Rogers with "Buy Me a Rose." December 2014- "Burn the Red Barn" is recognized as a runner up in 2014 "Song of the Year" contest, an international songwriting competition.