Check Out Cory Pack of Jawfane

Today we’d like to introduce you to Cory Pack.

Hi Cory, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Jawfane started in February 2021 as a just a group of guys who got together after COVID lock downs to just play music, other than solidify when we would practice, we didn’t have many goals.

The band as a whole has always tried to input as much emotion into our songs as possible, we have always wrote from a “close to the chest, off the cuff” kinda way. Our personalties are on full display in much of our work, and as we grow and change as people so will our songs.

After some member changes and stretching our sound a bit, (check out our songs “Carry On” and “Damaged Goods”) We struck a blue collar deal with Exitus Stratagem Records and started work on our Debut EP “Me and All My Demons”

We have only released 7 songs in 4 years, but have played over 60 shows from Chicago to Alabama and all across the southeast. We are a live band first and foremost, and we have tried very diligently to capture that energy in our first EP, “Me and All My Demons”

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Any band that has been around for 4 years telling you it was easy, tell em I’d love to talk.

No not at all.

We started with no real outline or any and I mean any IDEA of what “being in the music industry” meant.
We made rules for ourselves and what we expected of each other but then that we were lucky to get shows or anything like that, (BIG THANK YOU TO ANYONE WHO HAS BOOKED US) I started building a studio so we could record ourselves I did the 2-7 single mixes and tracked for the EP and that part taught us all a lot about what it takes to record well, write with intent, and also being a team player. We made a lot of mistakes early on, bought to much merch, drove to far for no money (we did it to ourselves), in the name of “success”.

Now, we have a system we like that outputs music we love, and we work with brilliant generous humans to bring it to life. We, through hard work and staying the course, have found a happy balance between ” I will suffer for my dream” and “is this the best move we can make”.

The biggest struggle for Jawfane, in my opinion, has always been balance, across all things in our band. For the moment we have found a balance that works and hopefully puts out a recordsthat people can relate to.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Jawfane’s live show is one of a kind.

All five members will sing, all the songs are personal journeys of our band and its members.

In a way that makes me proud to say, Austin will ask you to lift off the mask, let the person underneath out, and let’s see what the disguise looks like on the floor tonight.

Jawfane is most proud of our ability to engage our audience, find the relatable place, and dance with them awhile.

How do you define success?
By the smiles on our faces when we nail a song at practice.
By the release we see at our shows: in the pit, with a voice, or hands up.
By the way our inbox will be have complete strangers asking us when the next song comes out or just to tell us to keep going.
The guy at the Roxglass who handed us 100 dollars for no reason other than “I believe in you”
The way every time we needed a member and everyone thought it was impossible it seemed the perfect human showed up to keep this thing going.

It’s not money, though money is useful, it’s not even the crowd size.

In a sentence:
We like making music, and as long as that can be done,
we are successful.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jawfane?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jawfane
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@jawfane
• Other: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jawfane/1582900055 (APPLE MUSIC)