Cory Branan • Dalton Domino

15711 Waterloo Rd,Cleveland OH 44110

01 February, 2022

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Cory Branan • Dalton Domino ALL AGES Cory Branan Dalton Domino Cory Branan performs at the Beachland Tavern on Tuesday, February 1 @ 8pm with Dalton Domino. PLEASE NOTE, COVID POLICY IN PLACE. SEE OUR SAFETY PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION. This Way Out, our vintage and record store, will be open during the show. You do not need a show ticket to shop at This Way Out. Cory BrananADIOS is Cory Branan’s death record. Not the cheeriest of openings, but like all of Branan’s mercurial work, it’s probably not what you think. As funny and defiant as it is touching and sad, this self-dubbed “loser’s survival kit” doesn’t spare its subjects or the listener. Not even Branan’s deceased father is let off the hook. In the tender homage “The Vow” he drolly cites his father’s favorite banality “that’s what you get for thinking” as “probably not the best lesson for kids.” For most songwriters that would be the punchline but Branan pushes through words and, in his father’s actions, finds a kind of “genius in the effortless way he just ‘did’.” Not all the death on ADIOS is literal mortality. “Imogene” is sung from the wreckage of a love that once “poked fun at the pain, stoked the sun in the rain” but ends with the urgent call to “act on the embers, ash won’t remember the way back to fire.” The trademark lyrical agility is mirrored sonically. Never a genre loyalist, ADIOS finds Branan (much like his musically restless heroes Elvis Costello and Tom Waits) coloring outside the lines in sometimes startling shades of fuzz and twang. While unafraid to play it arrow-straight when called for (“The Vow,” “Equinox,” “Don’t Go”), ADIOS veers wildly from the Buddy Holly-esque rave up “I Only Know” (sung with punk notables Laura Jane Grace and Dave Hause), through the swampy “Walls, MS” to the Costello-like new wave of “Visiting Hours.” The blistering punk of “Another Nightmare in America” bops along daring listeners to “Look away, look away, move along, nothing to see here” (the song is written from the point of view of a racist killer cop). And as the mourning singer on “Cold Blue Moonlight” shifts from paralysis to panic, the song’s jazzy drone shifts to an almost Sabbath fury. The tonal shifts are always deliberate and not just simple genre hopping; while the turns can be jarring you can trust Branan to take you somewhere unexpected. The 14-song album was self-produced and recorded in the spring of 2016 at Tweed Studios in Oxford, MS with a tight three piece: Branan on lead vocals and guitar (both electric and acoustic); Robbie Crowell (formerly of Deer Tick) on drums and percussion, keys, and horns; and James “Haggs” Haggerty on bass. Additionally, Amanda Shires contributes on fiddle and vocals, and Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! and Dave Hause provide guest vocals. Cory Branan has four previous full-length releases: The Hell You Say (2002, Madjack Records), 12 Songs (2006, Madjack), Mutt (2012, Bloodshot Records), and The No-Hit Wonder (2014, Bloodshot). His music has received critical praise from the likes of Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Country, NPR All Things Considered, Noisey, Wall Street Journal, Paste Magazine, Oxford American, Consequence of Sound, Southern Living, and many others. www.corybranan.com • Facebook • Instagram Twitter Dalton DominoA moody Texas country singer/songwriter whose approach lands halfway between atmospheric Americana and lean, Red Dirt Country, Dalton Domino is part of a 21st century progressive country music from Lubbock, Texas. For Dalton Domino, music was always present. The way artists of all stripes, from punk rockers to traditional country artists, could convey a simple or complex truth with a simple turn of phrase caught his imagination from an early age. Creativity and an appreciation for song has been an evolution for Domino. He’d written albums before, but when he sat down for nine months last year and began piecing together what would become Corners, Domino’s latest and inarguably most soul-baring effort yet, things felt different. The album is at times lyrically somber and sordid, honest and transparent, but always anchored by sumptuous grooves and melodic mastery. Born in Memphis, Domino was raised on a steady diet of varying musical genres, ranging from George Jones to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. He proudly recalls his grandmother walking around the house singing church hymns. As a teenager he gravitated towards the punk-rock scene, playing in bands, drawn in by the speed “and the rawness of the lyrics.” But not until he moved to Lubbock, however, and started frequenting the Blue Light in the city’s historic Depot District, did Domino find his true voice as a songwriter. Catch this incredible songwriter in several performances across the mountain this January including the “806 Crew” specialty show. daltondomino.com • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter • Spotify Cory Branan Dalton Domino