J. Irvin Dally
J. Irvin Dally is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Biography. J. Irvin Dally was raised in southern Illinois, eventually moving to Colorado and growing up in Spain. Dally eventually found himself in Sacramento and Santa Rosa before setting up more permanently in Los Angeles. Self-taught and self-styled, Dally started out as a member of a group called Brother before recording more experimental and expansive folk and pop music. His cassette release, "The Countryside of Southern Illinois and the Daydreams That Almost Got Me to 19 Years" revealed an adventurous spirit early  on through the focused course of a 26-minute song. His later Despistado EP was in turn described as "a collection of skeletal folk songs that range from light brushes over the strings with deft fingers to bombastic, sometimes jarring, arrangements that incorporate everything from primitive tape-loop drones to sputtering electronic percussion". His first studio recordings took form in the release of the vinyl 7" / digital release "Sun Room / Teething" and was released on January 11, 2011, along with a video directed by his Emmy Award winning brother-in-law Steve Lamme. Is Was, recorded by J. Irvin Dally  between 2018 - 2019 in Brooklyn, Bend, and Sacramento, was released digitally and on vinyl in February of 2020. The tour for this album was stunted by the global pandemic - but this is not to say you should let it go unnoticed. Its varied textures and diverse compositions will appeal to fans of both the upbeat and pop-centric (The Pool, Get Off), as well as the insightfully melancholic (Shapeless, Punchline). Combining this wide sonic range with rich, unapologetic lyrics, Is Was offers a dynamic argument for allowing the mythologies of the world to fall away. J. Irvin Dally made his  SXSW debut in March 2011. J. Irvin Dally has been compared to Jeff Buckley, Cat Power, Radiohead, and Leonard Cohen.