Hello there,
I know I don't blog much, but here goes. I hope everyone else is having a great summer.
I thought I'd share some of the news coming in for my new EP "Home".
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Kelly Dalton is a songwriter from Los Angeles and has
a beautiful, silky voice and his witty, poetic songs
are without exception of superior quality. He knows a
lot of sincere emotion in his voice healing process
and thereby almost all attention to themselves to
attract. Dalton has really grown up in a musical
family, his parents sat in The Back Porch Majority, a
popular folk band from the 60's decade. If you as a
child were already
surrounded by musicians, it can hardly be otherwise if
you can also write songs and play instruments, as well
Kelly (guitar, piano, harmonica). Dalton is a
singer-songwriter who inspired his search for folk and
rock, so his influences range from Cat Stevens, Simon
&
Garfunkel and James Taylor. His debut album "The Love
in Every Bar", last year, is with us still in the
books as one of the most inspiring American folk album
of the past
few years. "The Love in Every Bar" is a pleasant
combination of guitar and vocals, very nice for the
background, but also very suitable for intensive
listening. Sometimes he does a bit of Jack Johnson
thought, but Kelly really has a unique style. In the
year that he was hard at work on his first album he
lost
two people who were very important for him. The death
of his best friend and his ex-girlfriend has seized
him very hard, almost had his album not complete.
Yet he continued, because they probably also happy
that he had seen his dreams to reality. With this
thought, he really provided a very beautiful album,
which his natural life stories about love and loss.
"The Love in Every Bar" is simply a plate without
bells and whistles that excels in its subtlety. What
we can say of his new ep �Home� with six strong
tracks, songs that again that relaxed atmosphere and
to convey clearly are an extension of his debut,
though his excellent piano playing in these songs more
evident. Vocally, Dalton is joined in a couple tracks
with
singer / songwriter Holly Brook, from Fort Minor fame,
but also the
musical accompaniment is once again strong, including
Cisco Deluna (dobro, accordion) & Ben Pringle (organ,
vocals), from the band The Rentals.
These are artists who always accompany him to his live
performances. The foundation remains the voice of
Dalton, his guitar and modest rhythm. On this EP, in a
production of Thom Flowers, six are beautiful, gentle
country and folk songs, where the main strength lies
in the clear, dreamy vocals of Dalton. He kicks off
with the lovely song "Let Me In" and with track two,
the title track, he takes me. Immediately a classic
one. His voice is beautifully catchy warm weather also
excellent to his right in the only cover "I'm On Fire"
by Springsteen, the constructive "Like A River" and
the sensitive ballad "Alley". Kelly
Dalton is a songwriter who wants to go on without
falling the most beautiful things. Where after its
strong debut, but now this EP actually seems quite
ordinary, invites "Home" time after time to listen
again and even a particularly welcome guest in the
late morning.
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