Music should be about having something to say - unless it's about getting you to move your body and dance.
It's hard to believe this is the group's fourth album - and Dalton has been in bands since 1983 and into music since he was 6 years old. The revealing truths that come out, one would think, would have shown themselves earlier on in a career.
The band has a reputation as an overworked cover band around New Jersey - but only as a vehicle for getting in their own lick and kicks. And if I only had the cover list to go by, from the Foo Fighter's "All My Life" to "Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis, I would know they'd be my brand of beer.
"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.
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