Biography

More about David Storey

With a dynamic, 40 year career that has zig-zagged between music and broadcast production, for which he’s won numerous awards, songwriter David Storey, recharged and refocused is now poised to win new laurels in the musical realm where he began his journey.

A new album, made in Canada, continues the pattern established on two previous releases of wry wit and penetrating insights about life’s challenges, characters and passions. Delivered with both humor and poignance, it includes expressions of the life lessons he has learned riding the crests and troughs of fate, shared not with bitterness but simply as unearthed jewels he’s discovered.

An early musical career had seen him get airplay, rave reviews and award nominations for his Roots-Rock songs, which were compared to John Prine and Steve Earl. He then left music for less precarious work in the creative realm while raising a family for 20 years. At first directing videos and tv specials for the likes of Tom Cochrane, Stompin’ Tom Connors and Anne Murray, later gravitating into the comedic field, where he found acclaim developing, producing and directing the hit television show and movie “Corner Gas.”

It wasn’t until 2011 that he found himself with the time and resources to get back to his music, quickly releasing an ep and then a full album, Comin’ Home, in 2015. Both garnered plaudits from fellow artists and reviewers, who hailed his “intelligent songs” that find “the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
After yet another jag back into comedy in 2017 to help create the animated version of Corner Gas, his focus sharpened all the more for an encounter with cancer and his own mortality, he has returned squarely back to music with the release of made in Canada. The new album represents the ongoing evolution of an extraordinary and entertaining chronicle of characters, inner dialogues and natural landscapes that have arisen from the saga of the life of this remarkable teller of tales.