"I Can't Save It Now" jangles it's way to a declaration that he's forgotten how to love - at least one person. It has pop without the fizzle, freedom without the flotsam and ballad without the blahs. It's uplifting.
Smoky is the first word that comes to mind about Dalton's voice. Warm is the next. The music, from the plaintive quality in Dalton's singing to the often gentle guitar strums, made me want to know more about the man behind this intensely personal music. And intensely personal here does not mean dark and confused.
Dalton and the band have learned the secret behind these type of songs - don't wallow in your own pain for any length of time. Keep the songs short. Because just like in real life, patience with another's sorrows is a matter of convenience and time.
And so it comes as no small surprise that having listened and never tiring, to discover that, as Mike's bio states, "He's had over 200 airplays on national television shows such as As the World Turns, Another World, Guiding Light, and Passions." Since he's a New Jersey lad, expect to hear him on the new Fox show "Point Pleasant" any day now.
Can anyone say cognitive dissonance)? (Answer, yes, but I can't spell it)
As befits people of a sharing, confessional nature - without the goo, the band's Web site (MikeDalton.com) is packed full of information about roots, whereabouts and influences. There's photos galore and question and answer sessions of the band members — Eddie Carson, Jimmy Drulett, Nick Massaro, and Dalton.
I would also have to say, this is headphone music. I may be late to this discovery, but there are some types of music, some voices and styles which sound much better the more inside your head they become.
Of course I haven't heard them live.
Give these guys a listen and order the CD here with 60-second excerpts of four of the songs at MikeDalton.com
Glider
1. Stairs of Love
2. Primrose Lane
*3. I Can't Save It Now
4. For Life
*5. Goober
*6. One More
*7. Needle In My Vein
*8. College Ave.
*9. The Story Of My Life
10. Anymore
*11. Coming Down From The High
12. Make Way For My Son
13. On Me
14. You'll Never Know
15. If My Dad Was Hip
16. Love
*17. The Ship Must Sail
18. Love Keeps Me Waiting
* Songs I heard completely
**(Incidentally, I was reminded of the fun of drinking Sambuca) when I looked how to spell it. It involves fire
Article comments
1 - Lindsay
This doesn't show Mike Dalton's album! It is a picture of Usher's CD -
Can you fix it?
THANKS!!
2 - Temple Stark
That's all you have to say?
Mike Dalton isn't on Amazon, unfortunately and the way the Web site is set up somethng from Amazon will always be up there. I am planning to get a pic of the Mike Dalton album up there, right below it. Instead of usher do you have a preference. AC/DC? The Cream?
3 - Pat
Temple,
Just wanted to thank you for your time and efforts you put into
reviewing GLIDER. Truly appreciate your honesty and comments on the
tracks you reviewed off of GLIDER. On behalf the Mike Dalton Band and
myself, we thank you for a great review of GLIDER, and to those who
haven't had the opportunity to see the band in person, take a listen
to GLIDER.
Pat, Publicist