DALTON DOVER

                                                             "Night To Go" 

                                                              UMG Nashville/Mercury Records

There’s no other artist quite on the rise as much as Dalton Dover.

The buzz he earned with 2021’s “You Got A Small Town” continued to grow louder and louder as he peeled back his signature layers with each of his subsequent song releases, “Baby I Am,” “Hear About A Girl,” and “Damn Good Life.”

But his star exploded into a tremendous firework upon signing with UMG Nashville in late 2022 when his single “Giving Up On That” became the most-added at country radio the week it impacted, and is still climbing the charts as of this writing.

He now peels back yet another layer with his newest release, “Night To Go.”

The song, written by Cole Taylor, Trea Landon, Shane Minor, and Michael Carter, slides away from the softer to mid-tempo pace that we’re used to hearing from Dover, to instead blast us with a boot heel clicking barnburner.

Borrowing inspiration from the resurging 90’s country, the rip-roaring song allows Dover to throw down amid traditional instrumentation as he runs through a list of the many ways that a country boy can burn the moonlight, including heading to the same ol’ bar with your friends to drink the same ol’ drinks, staring at a football game on a Saturday afternoon, etc.

But with one well-placed line at the end of the pre-chorus, “But if you asked me, there ain't nothing like,” he flips the entire script when he slaps the chorus:

“Pick her up at seven, she climbs on in

Ride around a little to a country song

Pull into that county line, stop and go

And go and get our cold beer on

Lean in for a kiss underneath the stars

Till the sun shows up, just hold her close

That's about as good as a good ol' boy

Would ever want a night to go”

Continuing to the paint the perfect pictures of what that sweet sweet night together could look like, he sings through the second verse of taking a back road drive to where the river bends and it gets so quiet that you can hear the barn owl singing his song as the melody whispers through the trees.

Though themes of this nature are spread wide throughout country music, Dalton Dover lending his big, booming voice to a fuel that beckons you to the hardwood floor at a Friday night dancehall intriguingly shifts his output from the normal sentimental touches to an ultra-fun anthem that aptly keeps the flame on his buzz ignited as he continues turning heads.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis) 

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