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"Another Discovery" by Micah Dalton - BLUE FRONTIER - Song Preview micahdalton 257 views A new song preview from Micah Dalton's upcoming album "BLUE FRONTIER" (March 13, 2012).
Micah Dalton - Green Eyes by Coldplay micahdalton 369 views http://kck.st/nnBBEa (help me make my new album by Oct 27th!) For more info: http://www.micahdalton.com
Help Fund Micah Dalton's New Record micahdalton 273 views Sponsor a song to help fund Micah Dalton's new album through Kickstarter. Get slammin' perks in return for giving including an exclusive t-shirt and poster, covers ep, hous...
Micah Dalton: High and Low (feat. Kim Taylor) micahdalton 468 views
Micah Dalton: Bad Blood micahdalton 948 views This song was written by Micah Dalton, Nathan Angelo, Mat Linton, and James Gregory.
Set List Conslut Vid micahdalton 316 views
More Breakfast Thoughts with Micah and Friends micahdalton 432 views Always show the drummer how thankful you are.
Breakfast Thoughts on Tour micahdalton 299 views Funny dialogue between bandmates.
Micah Dalton, "Rev. Ramshack Run" Live @ Vinyl, 2.21 micahdalton 370 views Micah performing "Rev. Ramshack Run" from his new album "Pawnshop." Performed at Vinyl in Atlanta, GA 2/21/08. www.micahdalton.com
Micah Dalton, "I'll Find You In Ohio" Live @ Vinyl, 2.21 micahdalton 728 views Micah performing "I'll Find You In Ohio" from his new album "Pawnshop." Performed at Vinyl in Atlanta 2/21/08. www.micahdalton.com

About Micah Dalton

Soul-infused alt folk...with popular music tendencies

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Aug 31, 2006

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To find Micah Dalton's music on the family tree of rhythm and blues, you must first pinpoint the place where the venerable branches of soul music join with the trunk. Then let your eyes come to rest on a newly-sprouted branch just a few inches below.

"It's alt. soul—the little brother to soul music," he muses. "It's not necessarily aspiring to be soul, but it's learned from its older brother, and it's working on its own identity."

A string of events led the 21-year old Atlanta-native to graft himself onto the tree at precisely this spot. There was the lyrical storytelling of James Taylor and Paul Simon on his mother's cassette tapes, and the nimble grooves of the Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye records that he and his father danced to around the house. Then the young singer received a crash course in gospel songs while he worked with a community-building project in a dilapidated neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tenn.

In 2004 Dalton began erecting signposts to chart the course of his musical progression, beginning with his solid 10-song debut, These Are the Roots. The album bears the easy-going, pop-inflected feel of tracks such as "Put Up A Fight," "Blame It On January" and "Breakaway," and the artful musicianship of Matt Slocum (Sixpence None the Richer), Jason Eskridge (Lyle Lovett), Sandra McCracken, James Gregory (Michael W. Smith) and others.

Logging tour dates at NYC's Rockwood Music Hall, Eddie's Attic in Atlanta and a host of colleges and other venues east of the Mississippi, Dalton has embarked on a journey of continual, inspired reinvention. The result is a new mile-marker—the warm, organic seven-song EP, Advancement. Co-produced by Dalton and Gregory, the latest song cycle displays moments of kinship with Donny Hathaway or Marvin Gaye, but it is anything but an exercise in imitation.

"I've tried to learn from those who have gone before me and to form my own way of saying things," Dalton offers. "I think that to make something progressive, you have to be a student of those who have made very important contributions to music and to our culture as a whole. Everything is derivative to a degree, but if an artist is completely and utterly true to their own sensibilities, capturing those musically and lyrically, I don't think that can be replicated."

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