This is a classic in the making and also very modern if you note the sampling and use of sound and fun effects. “Hell on Wheels’ is a great example—“There’s a hubcap rolling round the night stand.”. Steff Kayser was never better on his lead guitar work and Ron lays down a nice series of interesting progressions. ‘Bug in the Soup’ is in the best existential
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Ron Dalton has also been playing area venues for a number of years. These days, he often performs with his wife Peggy Sullivan as Burgundy Pearl. After this mostly solo appearance at C & P Coffee Co., Ron wrote back answers to these questions:
[VR] What prompted you to begin writing songs?
[Ron Dalton] I've been around music my entire life. My Grandfather played clarinet
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There is something sweet, simple and triumphant in Ron Dalton’s award-winning song, “Artist Set of Tools.” Dalton explores the wonder of art, and looks wryly at the dollar-bill signs in the eyes of many who miss all that the arts—and, often, life—have to offer. “Now some folk like the words I write,/ Impassioned in my views./ Others say, ‘Hope you kept your day job, too?’”
It is the quiet sense of humor, the sense of balance and gentle humility, that give Dalton’s songs and performances a kind of grace that sets them apart. But this is not a man who has always received the greatest support. “I wrote music for a country lyricist and when I showed him
Given to referring to his songs as children (Every song is a precious child, some are tender, slow or sad, others strong, fast or wild; I have raised them from a fathers dream), it is fitting perhaps that Ron's new CD was entirely home-birthed. I have recorded this in my living room without any harmonies, bass, or drums, he writes in his liner notes. Just me and my guitar playing these songs as they were originally