After 25 years of songwriting, Chattanooga musician Ashley Krey was looking for new topics to write about, and tales from Northwest Georgia about what some called a devil worshiper mountain sounded like something worth exploring.
The album that resulted confronted fears about the Corpsewood Manor murders.
“Putting out a true crime record is something that I hadn’t seen a whole lot of,” Krey said in a phone call. “And I kind of wanted to delve into some of the local folklore here, as a transplant, that struck me. And secondly, definitely, some things that corresponded to today that I found in the Corpsewood murders.”
For most of his career, Krey said his songwriting dealt with broader principles that shape humanity and politics, but “Outrun X Shadows” is an album rooted in the specific time period of the murders: mid-December 1982.
The murders