Will Dailey
is a Boston area singer-songwriter. He is notable as being the winner of the 2006 Boston Music Award for Best Male Singer-Songwriter. He is also a CBS Recording artist and has recorded albums with Wheelkick Records and JS Music Group. Dailey has released three full-length albums since 2004, and his most recent project, Torrent, involves the artist digitally releasing a burst of new music approximately every 3 months, and then compiling that material, along with bonus material, as a physical and digital audio package twice a year.
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Career
As of August 24, 2007, it was noted in the biography section of that he started his professional career early. At age 12, he used his own savings to buy a small guitar and amp. By age 16, he had completed his first public performance on stage at a pub.
Will Dailey performed at the annual
Farmaid benefit concert on
September 20,
2008 at the
Comcast Center in
Mansfield, Massachusetts to raise money for
family farmers. Others on the bill included
Farmaid principals
Willie Nelson,
John Mellencamp,
Neil Young and
Dave Matthews along with
Kenny Chesney,
The Pretenders,
Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels and others.
His songs have appeared in a variety of venues, including numerous television shows (
see a partial list of Will Dailey's songs featured in television programs).
On
May 22,
2009, Dan Aquilante of
The New York Post favorably contrasted Will Dailey with the performers on
American Idol, writing “
Forget the last five months of force-fed artificial pop music on TV that just crowned a king (who I'm betting will be forgotten as quickly as he was created) -- Will Dailey is the real deal."
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GoodbyeRedBullet
In 2004, Dailey sold his car to pay for the release of his first full-length solo album,
GoodbyeRedBullet. Although the proceeds of the sale were enough to fund the release of his CD, there was not enough surplus to finance a tour. Dailey instead relied upon his family and friends to generate publicity, a tactic which eventually gained him a mailing list of more than 25,000 worldwide.
GoodByeRedBullet was released
April 20,
2004 and eventually sold more than 10,000 copies.
Following the success of this first album, Dailey began an intensive tour of the West Coast. Stricken with
appendicitis and lacking health insurance, he was faced with nearly insurmountable debt. For health and financial reasons, he reluctantly abandoned the tour temporarily, squashing his hopes for a second album and compounding his financial woes. Thereafter, Dailey was able to proceed with his tour for a short while as a means of paying his staggering medical bills.
This situation soon changed when he achieved a record deal from an independent label in
Los Angeles, providing him with the financial means to begin recording his second full-length album.
Back Flipping Forward
Back Flipping Forward was released on
April 18,
2006.
In late
2006, Will Dailey was among the first artists signed to the newly-reformed
CBS Records [2]. A large part of the focus for the label will be the promotion of artists who gain notoriety through the media company's own TV programs, whether aired on CBS channels, or made by CBS Paramount Television for broadcast on other networks. underscored this agenda, citing appearances of other musicians in CBS progamming as a means of promoting upcoming releases and television programs, such as the
Grammy Awards.
September 4,
2007 marked the release of a deluxe package of the song
Rise
exclusively to the Internet music and video download service . The deluxe edition featured the album version of the track, an acoustic version, and a live in-studio video.
Back Flipping Forward was remixed and re-released October 2, 2007 through CBS Records. Dailey's cover recording of
Tears For Fears' "Everbody Wants To Rule The World" was made available as a bonus track to anyone purchasing the re-release of
Back Flipping Forward on
iTunes. Dailey's version was also used extensivley by
CBS for on-air promotion of the series,
Kid Nation. Dailey appeared in an episode of
CSI: NY
on
October 17,
2007. He was seen and heard performing "Rise" in a club, while
Gary Sinise's character
Mac Taylor played bass alongside him.
Torrent
As of
2009, Dailey began releasing a new EP ever few months as part of his year-long musical project called
Torrent. According to
Billboard Magazine [3],
Torrent, Volume 1: Fashion of Distraction, which was inspired by
The Byrds and features contributions from
Roger McGuinn was released digitally on
January 20,
2009.
Torrent, Volume 2: By the Blue Hills, which is dedicated to his hometown
Boston and features guests like
Elliot Easton of
The Cars,
Tanya Donelly of
Throwing Muses and
Belly,
Kay Hanley of
Letters To Cleo and Tim Brennan of
Dropkick Murphys was released digitally on
March 17,
2009. Dailey's song, "Tomorrow Stil Comes" was also featured on
NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack, which was released
February 10,
2009 and used prominently in the
NCIS episode
"South By Southwest" on
February 24,
2009. Additionally, "Peace Of Mind" from the first
Torrent volume was featured in the
NCIS episode
"Semper Fidelis" on
May 12,
2009.
Torrent: Volumes 1 & 2 was released on
June 9,
2009, combining the previous two EPs into a physical package, along with two bonus tracks.
According to the liner notes found in
Torrent, Volumes 1 & 2 [4], there is a reason that the release is being presented on
DVD as well as on
CD. That reason is
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"Developed by T Bone Burnett and his longtime team of engineers, ???? is a patent-pending system for creating high-definition sound that is virtually indistinguishable form the master recordings an artist creates in the studio. The result is music exactly as it's meant to be heard, but that does not require the audience to purchase any new or special equipment to play. Anyone with a standard DVD player or one built into their computer system, can play a ???? DVD and experience recorded music with the resonance, depth, warmth and presence that has only recently become possible in the digital reproduction of sound."
The
???? DVD also contains all of the
Torrent songs in
.wav,
.aac and
.mp3 formats,
"to give the listener the ultimate flexibility demanded by today's audio environment". The package also contains a standard
CD. According to
Billboard [, the double-disc will be sold at a single-CD price.
]
In May, 2009, Dailey released that parodied the famous Love '76 commercial from crooner Peter Lemongello, who sold millions of records through late-night television commercials in the mid- to late-1970s . captures the scene of two sterotypical show business managers coercing Dailey to appear in a TV advertisement for his new album, Torrent, so that he can achieve the same level of success as Peter Lemongello, Zamfir and Slim Whitman. The commercial itself is a scene-by-scene recreation of the original that first aired on television in 1976.
Partial list of Will Dailey's songs featured in television programs
| Song Title
| Show
| Episode Title
| Original U.S. Airdate
| Notes
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| "Hallelujah"
| The Cleaner
| The Things We Didn't Plan
| July 28, 2009
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| "How Can I Make You Happy"
| The Late Late Show
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| July 14, 2009
| Live performance
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| "How Can I Make You Happy"
| The Early Show
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| June 16, 2009
| Live performance
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| "Peace Of Mind"
| NCIS
| Semper Fidelis
| May 12, 2009
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| "Keep You A Mystery"
| 90210
| The Party's Over
| May 5, 2009
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| "Never Be Your Baby"
| Harper's Island
| Bang
| May 2, 2009
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| "The Right One"
| Numb3rs
| Animal Rites
| April 10, 2009
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| "Tomorrow Still Comes"
| NCIS
| South By Southwest
| February 24, 2009
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| "Never Be Your Baby"
| 90210
| Games People Play
| November 11, 2008
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| "Peace Of Mind"
| 90210
| Games People Play
| November 11, 2008
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| "Rise"
| CSI
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| October 2008
| Promotional campaign
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| "Boom Boom"
| As The World Turns
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| October 3, 2008
| On-camera performance
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| "Rise"
| As The World Turns
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| October 3, 2008
| On-camera performance
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| "Rise"
| Numb3rs
| End Game
| April 25, 2008
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| "Rise"
| Eli Stone
| Patience
| April 10, 2008
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| "Grand Opening"
| Life Is Wild
| The Code
| December 9, 2007
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| "Grand Opening"
| Gossip Girl
| Blair Waldorf Must Pie!
| November 28, 2007
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| "Grand Opening"
| Life Is Wild
| The Heart Wants What It Wants
| November 18, 2007
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| "Grand Opening"
| Cane
| One Man Is An Island
| November 6, 2007
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| "Good To Me"
| Viva Laughlin
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| October 21, 2007
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| "Rise"
| The Early Show
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| October 17, 2007
| Live performance
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| "Rise"
| CSI:NY
| Time's Up
| October 17, 2007
| On-camera performance
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| "Undone"
| NCIS
| Ex-File
| October 9, 2007
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| "Hollywood Hills"
| The Hills
| They Meet Again
| Septebmer 17, 2007
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| "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"
| Kid Nation
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| August 2007
| Multi-week promotional campaign
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| "Undone"
| Army Wives
| Who We Are
| July 8, 2007
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| "Eliza"
| CSI:Miami
| Born To Kill
| May 14, 2007
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| "Rise"
| NCIS
| Cover Story
| April 10, 2007
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| "Hollywood Hills"
| What About Brian
| What About Finding Your Place…
| February 12, 2007
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| "Bi-Polar Baby"
| Ghost Whisperer
| Cat's Claw
| December 15, 2006
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| "Grand Opening"
| Jericho
| Vox Populi
| November 29, 2006
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Discography
Albums
- GoodbyeRedBullet
2004
- Back Flipping Forward
2006
- Torrent, Volume 1: Fashion of Distraction
2009
- Torrent, Volume 2: By The Blue Hills
2009
- Torrent, Volumes 1 & 2
2009
References
- Much Better Than A Pop Idol
- CBS Plans To Restart Namesake Music Label
- Billboard Magazine, May 29, 2009
- Torrent, Volumes 1 & 2 - Liner Notes: June 9, 2009