They had mutual friends and those folks vouched for Savage. They shared a laugh and Drag confirmed that’s how they initially met. “I was like, ‘Hey, I’m putting together a label, you seem like you kind of have similar interests, do you want to work together?’ And he kind of blew me off, actually.” “He had a Mikey and the Drags show, pre-Flower Graves, at Satellite Bar and I walked up to him after the show,” Savage recalled while Drag sipped from his own drink and nodded in agreement beside him. By the end of 2016, he worked up the nerve to share his vision with one of Houston’s most notable musicians, Mikey Drag. Once he started in earnest, he felt the need to tab a musician with strong ties to local and far-off acts, someone who knew the performance side of the business. In fact, he admits, “I don’t have a musical bone in my body.” But, he is a studious music fan and a resourceful business person.
With Wallflower Records primed to invade Cactus Music Saturday for a “takeover” event featuring label acts Young Mammals, Flower Graves and The Rotten Mangos, Savage shared how far the upstart, self-funded business has come in a few short years. It’s become one of the Houston’s busiest, thanks to a steady flow of new and reissued material and an ancillary booking agency. Savage describes it as “a hobby record label” with an emphasis on the physical distribution of vinyl and cassettes. On the spacious outdoor patio of Midtown dive bar Two Headed Dog, Savage sipped a Bombshell Blonde Ale while he recounted the sudden notion which would eventually become Wallflower Records. “I just knew that I had to do it,” Savage said. He decided then and there that he had to start a Houston-based record label. As he took in sets by the label’s bands – acts like Mystic Braves, The Creation Factory and Psychomagic – inspiration struck. A few Februaries ago, Corey Savage attended Lolipop Records’ Lolipop Your Heart Out music festival in Los Angeles.
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