Cory·Knowland

I · Music

Forty years.
Four hundred records.

Producer, engineer, session player, label owner, sideman, songwriter. From basement four-tracks in the early '80s to digital consoles in 2026 — the same ear, in better rooms.

400+ Album credits worldwide
40 Years in recording studios
3 Countries · US · UK · Canada

The Practice

The instinct of an artist. The precision of a technician.

Cory plays electric and acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, and sings. He has produced, engineered, mixed, mastered, and arranged across analog tape and modern digital workstations — not in succession, but in conversation.

He owns and operates recording facilities. He runs the independent label AMG — Alpha Music Group. He has co-written and recorded with Eric Lilivois at London Bridge Studios in Seattle — the room that gave the world Pearl Jam’s Ten.

The thread across every project is the same: find the song inside the song. Build the team that can deliver it. Get out of the way.

Cory performing on guitar in a winery venue

Collaborators

The people in the room.

A partial list, in no particular order. The complete picture takes longer to tell.

Selected Projects

Beyond the album.

Sound designer and composer for the independent film Terrible Angels (2012). Producer, writer, and performer of music for regional television campaigns including Izzy NW. Lyricist (under the legal name Corwin Knowland) on the Whites Restaurant Original Soundtrack with the White family.

Bassist and musical director for festival events with the Luis Palau Praise Band. Steering committee for the Pacific Northwest Promise Keepers events of the early 1990s. Instructor at the Worship Northwest conference — teaching guitar mechanics, the Nashville Number System, amp tone, and the art of weaving acoustic and electric guitars into one breathing arrangement.

The teaching session

Dynamic Duos: Acoustic & Electric Guitars — co-taught with instructor Chris at Worship Northwest. How two players become one part.

Cory performing live on stage with a vocalist
“You learn early that the record isn’t made by the gear. The record is made by what the players give you when they trust the room. The whole job is building that trust.”

Studio & production

If you’re making a record —

There’s a good chance a phone call is the right way to start.

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