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Displaced Missouri boy, making music from the Paris of the South.

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Jeremy's What It Comes Down To E.P. is the first attempt of this North Carolina native to compile his descriptive and emotive songwriting into one place.
Drawing his influences from the news headlines, literary references and personal experiences traveling around the country as a theatre actor, Jeremy writes with such a vivid imagery almost making the listener believe they are right there with him. Jennifer Layton of Indie-Music.com writes, "I fell in love with Jeremy Aggers...any folk fan would swoon."
Indeed, while Jeremy may just be starting he's no beginner at the art of entertaining and telling a good story.

It's clear that singer/songwriter Jeremy Aggers is a captivating performer in the most unusual sort of way.
He has no bravado and doesn't demand attention. He doesn't dance around or bang on his guitar. He simply
performs. And through the power of his calm presence, and by the strength of his music, rooms quiet, heads turn, and people listen.
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Slow-burning folk rock from Atlanta that sometimes sounds like Tom Waits, if his voice cleared up. Other
times, it sounds rather rootsier. Either way, Aggers is a talent to watch.
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[What It Comes Down To] is a great debut...It showcases thoughtful and blindsiding lyrical prowess, clean
guitars and a voice that exudes so much power with so little effort.
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Dr. Know It All and The Second Opinion is Atlanta based band formed in 2010.
After playing together in various bands and on various stages of Atlanta, as well as doing some session work together,
the band members realized they all had common musical ground.
Blending southern rock, soul and ,blues, the band began to create it's own unique sound.
Starting with a solid foundation of singer / keyboard player Nick Goebeler's original music, the band began to develop their identity.
The rhythm section, drummer Jared Slyman and bassist Frank Mills, have played in countless Atlanta bands together for the past twn years,
Kyle Prinzbach studied guitar at the Atlanta institute of Music, and most recently played with Atlanta bank Blue Horizon.
Nick will sell you chicken.

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"He may sound like an earthier, cleverer Ben Harper, but musically Dalton suggests mid-'80s Prince in the way he defiantly straddles so many styles, requiring an enormous musical arsenal to get his point across. These juxtapositions of sounds and style rarely feel forced or even deliberate, courtesy of Dalton's soulful vocals and incisive songwriting."- PASTE MAGAZINE

"When you combine an earthy, easygoing songwriting style, the influence of Donny Hathaway and Paul Simon and a penchant for warm, understated instrumentation, there's a good chance you'll get ear-pleasing results. Micah Dalton has, and he calls it 'alt. soul.'"-THE NASHVILLE SCENE

"Micah Dalton is a bright light of hope in a dark tunnel that lets me know that the real soul of music is in the roots of the songwriter.-BURNSIDE WRITER'S COLLECTIVE

"Though I have never met him personally, it is quite easy to tell that Micah Dalton is a risk-taker. Apart from the fact that his musical style is an appealingly intrepid mixture of folk, blues, soul, and R&B, Dalton has provided an extremely unique experience for the release of his third album, Pawn Shop."-OBSCURE SOUND

There was a time when an album didn't offer pleasures for the ears alone. Having a vinyl LP on the turntable and a cover sleeve's vivid, larger-then-life artwork in hand made for a rich multi-sensory experience. But that long since became the stuff of tall tales. That is, until Micah Dalton decided to liquefy the boundaries between artistic media with Pawnshop.

On the third recording project of his career, the Atlanta, Ga.-based singer-songwriter summons the audio-visual album experience from the shadows of memory, and goes a step further still. Pawnshop is twelve spacious Southern pop statements; it's a short story told in twelve vignettes; it's twelve visceral, pen-and-ink images; it's an artistic risk that pays off mightily, and nothing short of a radical re-imagining.

"The idea of creating characters and running them through storylines is a lot more interesting than just an album," says Dalton. "It is like going into a science lab and seeing what comes out. Using different creative media and seeing how they interact with one another and speak to people is always fun."

Dalton co-wrote four of the album's richly nuanced songs with Brooklyn-based pop songsmith Nate Campany and several others with longtime collaborator bassist/producer James Gregory. Dalton and Gregory put flesh on the song bones between January and August 2007, working out of Nashville's Smoakstack Studios (Derek Webb), Art Canvas (India.Arie, Mighty Clouds of Joy) and other locales, and enlisting the sensitive touch of multi-instrumentalist Paul Moak, guitarist Kenny Meeks (Sixpence None the Richer), keyboardist Ben Shive and others.

The tracks cover satisfying musical range, from the acoustic, soul-tinged warmth of "Take the Backroads," "We Came Alive Tonight" and "The Grandest Prize," to "Down, Down Put It Down"—a snaking R&B number laced with sharp string runs—and gospel-infused, loose-jointed, backwoods romps like "I Am a Man (The Autobiography of Milton Burrows)" and "Reverend Ramshack Run."

The songs, stories and images dwell in the fertile space between autobiography and imagination. You could say they're true and more-than-true at the same time. There are elements of Dalton in Pawnshop—a restless soul sojourning through rural Georgia in 1965 and the album's central character—but they're not one and the same. Dalton ensured that the project would have plenty of captivating twists and turns by bringing other creative souls into the conversation, Jewly Hight to write a "fictional" story of desire taking hold and Jason Harwell to render the striking visuals. There's enough there for the listener-reader-observer to get lost in over and over.

Dalton began erecting signposts to chart the course of his musical progression back in 2004 with his pop-inflected full-length debut, These Are the Roots. Next came 2006's seven-song Advancement EP, which displayed moments of kinship with Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye, but was anything but an exercise in imitation. In countless clubs, theatres, coffeehouses and colleges east of the Mississippi, Dalton has shared the stage with the likes of Jon McLaughlin, Mindy Smith, Gary Jules, Dave Barnes and other lesser-known but no less talented folks. In 2007 he also signed on with unique Athens-based nonprofit indie Rebuilt Records.

The momentum is continually building. And Pawnshop adds a whole new batch of sights, sounds and stories to Dalton's body of work.

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