Corey Balsamo

Singer-songwriter from New York. Just trying to figure it all out.

Q
What song do you wish you wrote?
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Wow, there are so many. “Wheel” by John Mayer is my favorite song of all time. I can identify so many parts of my past with that tune. “Superman” by Joe Brooks is also great. “Caves” and “Swim” by Jack’s Mannequin, too. All powerful, great songs. I’m sure there are many others.

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would you be interested in playing a charity concert?
from:Anonymous
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Of course!

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favorite 90's cartoon & would you want to be able to fly, be invisible whenever you wanted, or be able to breathe underwater? :D hope those are better than the ones sitting in your ask!
A

Ren & Stimpy, definitely.

Invisibility. All day, everyday!

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Examples of questions that won’t be answered on “Ask Me”.  C'mon, I know you guys can think of something better to ask.

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Do you listen to Matt Wertz?
from:Anonymous
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YES I DO. I got to see him in NYC in May. “5:19” is one of my favorite songs ever. And I love his new record, “Weights and Wings”, too. He is over-all exceptional!

Some photos Ryan Royal took of me (and things) over our little mid-week road trip Upstate New York.

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whats is your favorite song written by you :)?
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I’ve thought for a few minutes on how to answer this question properly. I could’ve been incredibly impulsive, but truth is I’m just indecisive. “September” was one of the first songs I’ve ever written. And probably the oldest song that I still play, or at least haven’t retired yet. Do I think it’s my best song? No. But it’s still got its special place in my heart.

There’s currently an untitled song for the new record that I’ve been testing the waters with in the live setting - acoustically and full band. I really like it because I think the song itself shows a step forward in a direction that I never ventured into before, nor intended on going in. But I love it all the same. More than a few people have approached me after some of the more recent shows and pointed out that they specifically liked this song, too. I wish I could be less nondescript. But you’ll hear it when it releases.

I wrote a song around a half year ago called “Along The Way”. If nothing else, I believe it is my most honest work to date. It’s about a break up I went through. And although the feel for it is not a sappy, sad break-up song, the lyrics have a lot of heart. It’s a very broken down song, too. It works with mainly just acoustic guitar. As much as I like to jam out with a bunch of other guys on stage to my songs, this song is entirely lyrically driven and needs those minimalist qualities to really set the tone of the story the listener will live in for at least those three minutes.

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who is your biggest musical influence? and what did you grow up listening to?
from:Anonymous
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Ahh, a nicely posed question. I’m going to answer the second question first because of the timeline correlation. I grew up listening to bands like Blink 182, Nirvana and Rancid. I was really heavy into punk and grunge when I was 10 or so. And if I want to date myself even further, I remember rocking out to No Doubt’s “Tragic Kingdom” which was released in 1995. I came in and out of a couple of different musical phases then. I floated around for a while until my mother gave me a copy of John Mayer’s “Any Given Thursday” Live DVD for Christmas, subsequently the same year I began playing guitar. From that day forward John Mayer encompassed all and everything I wanted to be. Those previously mentioned bands were reasons for why I got into music, but John Mayer is definitely the reason I still PLAY music.

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DAMN IT OPRAH!!!

Music video for my song “Don’t Let Me Fall”. Check it out!

Gotta show coming up at the end of this month in New York with Ryan Cabrera and Jesse Ruben. Gonna be a great way to close out the Summer! I’m so excited for the new record and everything that will be happening this next year. Get your tickets before...

Gotta show coming up at the end of this month in New York with Ryan Cabrera and Jesse Ruben. Gonna be a great way to close out the Summer! I’m so excited for the new record and everything that will be happening this next year. Get your tickets before this sells out! www.coreybalsamo.bigcartel.com

The graduation speech always say, "As we go into the real world..” and then as I went to visit my friends at college, when I wasn’t in college, I was like “How real is this? .. This in an 8 ft. x 8 ft. white painted brick room, your parents are paying for it, you have their credit card - for "emergencies”, - how REAL is that? If that’s the graduation speech for high school, what’s the graduation speech for college?“ - John Mayer, No Such Thing
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