Cory Branan has never been interested in fitting into a genre. For him, the only constant has been the song itself — where it wants to go, what it needs, and how honestly its story can be told. Across a career that has spanned two decades, seven albums, and more than a few vans, he's built a reputation as a restless writer dedicated to the exploration of it all, pulling from punk, folk, country, rock, and Southern roots music without settling long enough to claim any one of them as home. "This is an orphanage," says the Memphis native, nodding to a record whose 10 songs were collected over nearly 20 years, each one initially tossed into the archives for not quite fitting whatever album he was making at the time. Taken together, they form a proudly unruly mosaic: fragments of different eras, different impulses, and different versions of the same songwriter. Instead of a singular tale, "You'll Live" unwinds like ten self-contained stories that sit side-by-side, recorded quickly in Nashville and pulled together by a musical lifer that Rolling Stone calls "a country boy with a punk-rock heart."

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