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dalton domino

9/23/2019

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Dalton Domino  (from the album Songs from the Exile available on Lightning Rod Records)
An empty page becomes a mirror when Dalton Domino exercises (and exorcises) his ghosts with the stories on Songs from the Exile, his recent release. An open letter begins the cycle of Songs from the Exile, “Happy Alone” directly addressing an ex, the first cut setting a stage that opens its heart in “Shadowlands” as a Southern Rock stomping beat soundtracks happiness for the mixed-family ties of “Halfblood” and the album follows a jittery marching drum through “Daddy’s Mud”. Writing the tracks for Songs from the Exile at home during a period Dalton Domino describes as a ‘personal rock bottom’, looking at his troubles through the bars of a song gave Dalton enough distance, allowing him to view his demons behind a protective shield. The Texas songman claims that ‘I learned that the mistakes and ghosts of the past are okay to befriend. They are what make you who you are today. This record is a collection of songs that are about specific moments in my life where I felt wronged — where I did things that were wrong — and I wrote it alone, in exile, during a year I spent learning how to look the things that kept me prisoner in the eye and let them go. I learned gratitude. I learned how to forgive’.
 
Scratchy chords line the crooked course that leads from bliss into break-up badlands in “Love is Dangerous” as Dalton Domino toasts memories with “Cheap Spanish Wine”, rolls on a shaky rock rhythm to offer “Dead Roses”, and finger snaps to mark the toll of loss in “Hush Puppy”. Dalton Domino is the centerpoint for Red Dirt Americana, his words turning into a love song, and shared in a duet with Kalsey Kulyk in “All I Need”, touching “The Nerve” with honky tonk rock’n’roll as Songs from the Exile makes an exit on ethereal sonics, greeting an old friend with hard truths in “Welcome Home”.
 
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