Hailing from Birmingham, AL, childhood friends Tanner Gray and Colby Wilson have beenwriting music together for over ten years. The pair have drawn inspiration from different genresand eras - The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, Vampire Weekend, and John Mayerto name a few. The music that comes from Gray and Wilson has always boasted bloodharmonies as well as thoughtful, invoking lyrics.Post high school, Gray and Wilson took different paths. Gray attended Mississippi StateUniversity; Wilson stayed in Birmingham. While at MSU, Gray became acquainted with ChasePorter (bass) and Zach Corder (drums)...
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Hailing from Birmingham, AL, childhood friends Tanner Gray and Colby Wilson have beenwriting music together for over ten years. The pair have drawn inspiration from different genresand eras - The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, Vampire Weekend, and John Mayerto name a few. The music that comes from Gray and Wilson has always boasted bloodharmonies as well as thoughtful, invoking lyrics.Post high school, Gray and Wilson took different paths. Gray attended Mississippi StateUniversity; Wilson stayed in Birmingham. While at MSU, Gray became acquainted with ChasePorter (bass) and Zach Corder (drums). Porter, Corder, and Gray would form and play inmultiple groups during their time in Starkville, MS. Wilson, all the while, was writing music ofhis own with his group Smoking With the Bandit. After graduating in 2015, Porter made his wayto Nashville to begin a career in Marketing. A year later, Gray and Corder made their post-graduate home in the panhandle of Florida, where they eventually formed The Graytones.In the Spring of 2019, Gray and Wilson were reunited when Gray moved back to Birmingham inpursuit of a new job. Corder headed to Music City, catching up with Porter. Gray and Wilsonpicked up right where they left off in Alabama, and they soon felt a new project starting to takeform.As the duo recorded acoustic demos, they reached out to their Mississippi-born rhythm section.The demos were shared north to Nashville, and once Porter and Corder heard what Gray andWilson were doing, they were all in. In September of 2019, Certainly So was formed. Severalmonths later, in January 2020, the group was introduced to producer/engineer Toby Hulbert.Hulbert had spent the last 8 years at Abbey Road in his hometown of London, England, and wascurrently in Nashville working alongside hitmaker Dave Cobb. Upon hearing the โCertainly Soโdemos, he felt a similar sentiment as Porter and Corder did- he must be involved. Hulbert joinedthe team as producer. Certainly So and Hulbert gained access to East Avalon Recording Studioin Muscle Shoals through RCAโs Colin Lott during April 2020. Over the next two months,Hulbert and Lott teamed up to produce and engineer four weekend sessions, recording whatwould be the bandโs debut album Future Self Only Dreams.Following the Future Self Only Dreams release, Certainly So released Dreams of Green. Therecord is a combination of the songs that did not sonically make the cut for Future Self OnlyDreams, but still deserved to be produced and recorded in their own style, and the new writesthat fit the same vibe. Dreams of Green was recorded in the bands basement in the Inglewoodarea of Nashville and is intended it to be an extension of Future Self Only Dreams. Similarly toFuture Self Only Dreams, Dreams of Green was engineered by Colin Lott and mixed by TobyHulbert in 2021, but was self produced by the members of Certainly So. Dreams of Green wasreleased in July 2022.
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