Doc will be heading out to California next
week to open the last 4 shows of Jason Isbell
& The 400 Unit's current tour with Maria Taylor.

Catch a show if you're in the area:

Friday, June 17th
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA

Saturday, June 18th
Audie's Olympic Tavern
Fresno, CA
(Maria will not be on this show)

Sunday, June 19th
Troubador
Los Angeles, CA

Monday, June 20th
The Casbah
San Diego, CA

   


Our show with The Civil Wars and Dylan Leblanc on May 25th at
Florence, AL's Historic Shoals Theatre was a great success raising over
$20,000 for Alabama tornado relief! Thanks to everyone involved! This
event was put together and produced by a crew made up entirley of
volunteers and couldn't have been better!

Doc will be doing 3 shows in Atlanta and South Carolina this weekend with Chris Porter (of Birmingham's Back Row Baptists) and backed by Danley Murner (mandolin) and Muscle Shoals'  Belles on Strings (Kate Tayler Hunt, Kimi Samson.)

Doc Dailey & Belles on Strings

This is from our local newspaper, the Times Daily. A new artist was featured every few days over the last couple of weeks. The topic of the series was “how being from the Muscle Shoals area has affected your work and career.”

I’m very proud to be counted among this amazing collection of great musicians.

To read the articles, click on each photo. Here’s the link

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Many Thanks to Bob Harris at BBC Radio 2 for spinning our song, "'Til Death Do Us Part" on his show today!

Skeeter from FrontPorchMusings.com put Victims, Enemies, & Old Friends on his Best of 2010 list!

Victims, Enemies, & Old Friends is on the Best of 2010 list from AmericanaRockMix.com!

We made the NineBullets.net favorites of 2010 list! Give it a look!

Thanks to Twangville for including our album, Victims, Enemies, & Old Friends, in their top 10 Best Albums of 2010! Click HERE to see the list.

Thanks to TwangNation.com for putting us on their Best of 2010 list!

From ninebullets.net:

DOC DAILEY AND MAGNOLIA DEVIL – VICTIMS, ENEMIES & OLD FRIENDS

I have to get this one in before the end of the year so I’m not stuck including a band I didn’t even write about on my Top 10 of the year list.

If you haven’t heard of Doc Dailey and Magnolia Devil then you need to pay more attention to me on twitter and Facebook and start listening to my damned podcasts but whatever, better now than never.

Doc Dailey comes to us out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Victims, Enemies & Old Friends is the followup to an EP he released way back in 2005. He teamed up with former FAME sound engineer, Ben Tanner, in Wishbone Studios and set to recording a full length. Now, I’m a drunk, not a music historian but when I think Muscle Shoals sound I think soul and southern rock and Doc Dailey ain’t either of those. They remind me another ninebullets favorite, Medford’s Black Record Collection, albeit more musical and less brooding but just as haunting and desolate. Victims, Enemies & Old Friends has an excellent mix of songs you can bounce and sing along to and songs you can drink and plot the murder of a loved one too. Sometimes, it’s the same song.

Trust me, I know about these things.

Anyhow, I wanted to mention this album before the end of the year cause it’s Essential Listening and almost definitely gonna be in my Top 10 so I wanted y’all to know about it in advance.

www.sleepinghedgehog.com

Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil: Victims, Enemies & Old Friends

By Gary, on December 3rd, 2010

If you’re at all like me, when you think of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, you think of soul music, not twangy country music. Doc Dailey is here to change your mind.

Victims, Enemies, & Old Friends is the full-length debut of Dailey and his band Magnolia Devil. It’s a follow-up to his self-released 2005 EP The Family, and it’s rapidly becoming one of my favorite 2010 releases.

Dailey sings in a high-lonesome voice that sounds like a metal gate swinging on slightly rusty hinges — again, more Appalachia than Alabama. He’s backed by a band in which pedal steel guitar and banjo figure prominently, along with acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, drums and the occasional fiddle and horn.

The vocals are arresting, the arrangements always interesting, but it’s the consistently strong writing that makes this album such a treat. These are the kind of songs that you have to listen to in order to follow what’s going on. Not that they’re psychedelic or cryptic like 1970s Neil Young lyrics, but Dailey doesn’t beat you over the head with obvious rhymes and stories that you can guess from the title and first line. Just listen to commercial country radio some time, and even if you’ve never heard the song they’re playing, you’ll be able to sing along by the end of the first verse. These songs aren’t like that.

I like all the songs, but I have no trouble picking a favorite. Or two or three. “Till Death Do Us Part” is a rocking country shuffle, a sweet love song about two lovers named Little Maggie and Earl, with some fiddle, and brushed snares keeping the beat. “Blue Eyed Blonde” is a sad uptempo honky-tonk song about a busted heart. “Red Tail Lights” is a crackling tale of a gal who got left home alone too many nights and is on her way out the door; the guy watches those red lights fade into the distance, “as the one he drove away drove away.” This one is quite bluegrassy, with fiddle and banjo and acoustic bass, even what sounds like a washboard.

But the real emotional center of the album is “Let Me Down,” a mid-tempo rocker that clocks in at six minutes. It follows a woman who arrives at the airport in the middle of a snowstorm and, when she finally gets home, finds her man with another woman. Like any good protagonist in a country song, she orders the cabbie to turn around and take her to “any old bar.”

It’s hard to quit naming favorite tracks. The opener, “Prove Me Wrong,” packs a lot of song into its quick two minutes. “The Only Reason” rocks and rolls as Doc tells a woman that she’s the “only reason I know / to go to Ohio.” “Pray for You” is a tender acoustic song of love to someone who, unfortunately, loves another. “Sunday School” is a loping rocker with wailing pedal steel and distorted electric guitar. The banjo-and-pedal-steel intro to “Alabama Daydream” kicks into a fast shuffling rocker. And both the final two tracks, “The Flame Beneath The Skin” and the title track, are layered chamber-folk.

No matter the arrangement, and whether it happens to rock, shuffle or sway, Dailey’s high-lonesome vocals and his southern-style storytelling keep every song firmly in the realm of country music. You can listen to samples at iTunes and Amazon, as well as at Doc & the Devil’s website. And I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing more from these folks.

Gary Whitehouse

[Southern Discipline, 2010]