smile goodbye to the kings and clowns

by James Dalton

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1.	Come Back to the Jersey Shore 04:10	buy track
2.	The Dancer 04:40	buy track
3.	Grafton Street 04:19	buy track
4.	Make It Happen 03:38	buy track
5.	Meet Me In the Wintertime 04:54	buy track
6.	Everyman's Blues 03:41	buy track
7.	I Believe 03:02	buy track

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This "little album that could", released independently in 2005 achieved radio plays on three continents, with it's broadcast depute on the "Live It Up Shanghai" in the People's Republic of China. Nominations and accolades as well as local and national press.
Here's with Elmore Magazine had to say...

"His voice has a nice gruff quality to it, somewhere between John Bell(Widespread Panic) and Ted Hawkins and he's admirably capable of going from that grittiness and swooping up into a falsetto in the manner of Jeff Buckley"

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released January 1, 2005

All songs written and performed by James "JPAT" Dalton
Produced and Engineered by John DeGrazio

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James Dalton New Jersey

James Dalton is a performer and a storyteller, a musician and a giver. He's huffed it around, reaching audiences the hard way:one person at a time, on stages and subway platforms, in living rooms and radio studios. Stomping his feet, hootin and hollerin, banging on guitars, and making mandolins weep. Sharing secrets and laughs, mixing breathtaking vocals with exciting harmonica playing ... more

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