Will Dailey: Tremble on Me, Bradley Beach, NJ, May 17th 2026

     I made my album just another number because I thought it would be fun to let it become simply part of the stream of works I hope to celebrate here. But, starting that stream back up after it felt a little strange, but I have the perfect thing to start it with.

    I have always been a huge fan of all the musicians to come out of Greenwich Village's Cafe Wha?,  and I couldn't pass the opportunity to go last month. We went to the random show that we happened to be in town for, which was Lydia Loveless and Will Dailey. We ended up enjoying this concert so much that I checked where they were going next, and I found out Will was coming to Bradley Beach. Which is SUPER weird to hear, because it's such a quiet town, with seemingly no venues. But there is! In a man's driveway two houses from the beach is the Noah's Ark concert series.

    It was the cutest small venue I've ever been to. They asked people to bring and eat foods and desserts, and they provided blankets for that beach-town-chill.

    As for Will's music, I will let this recording speak for itself. I don't need to explain that his voice is beautiful, or he is a talented guitarist. It's from his latest album Boys Talking, which I picked up and fell in love with the month before. 

    This kind of concert is the reason I love the local Jersey Shore stuff so much. There is literally a community everywhere, and an audience. There was a friend of his who came up and started to play harmonica with him. There is music everywhere, even if not immediately obvious, and I, and hopefully you, hope to do everything I can to see and support as much of it as possible.

    My father and I have been to countless concerts, but this was the first he ever bought merch for. Also, the video itself isn't that great, so really it's just another way to hear it alongside the MP3.

Link to MP3: Google Drive