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C&P Coffee Company Concert Dec 13 2009
Chat with Ron Dalton
By Hank Davis
(Reprint Victory Review)
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 and sax, my uncle played banjo, my mother played boogie-woogie piano starting at age 8, and they all performed at grange halls along the Olympic Peninsula way before I was born. As I was growing up my mother sang and played piano and encouraged me to appreciate all genres of music. All through my school years I sang and dabbled at piano and never presumed to be capable of such lofty expectations as to actually write a song.
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Ron Dalton: Half
Self Produced
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 written. So it’s a pared-down, like-live recording, and it serves Dalton well, because his voice is extraordinarily sweet, expressive and strong but primarily because he pens wonderful songs.
Half, the title track, may demonstrate some of the wittiest and most touching wordplay we will hear this year.
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RON DALTON: PLENTY OF YEARS, ACRES OF ART
By Bill Fisher
Reprint Victory Review Magazine
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 some lyrics I had written, he suggested I just stick with music and forget about writing lyrics. ‘There’s not enough years to learn it,’ he said.” With advice like that, who needs enemies?
Dalton had dabbled fairly seriously in music for many years. He sang with the vocal jazz group Soundsation
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