You can only hear the song at a show BUT you can get handwritten lyrics on the “Cover of Clouds” posters. This is a limited run.

$10 Dollar Song, a project created with the intention of prioritizing human connection over algorithms and analytics.

Inspired by a piece of vinyl artwork of Joni Mitchell's Clouds hanging in Dailey's home studio, the piece hung in his teenage bedroom and has been with him ever since. Dailey’s newest song, “Cover of Clouds,” is a 7 minute long love letter to Joni Mitchell, the cover image and her reign in Dailey’s consciousness from the first time he picked up a guitar. Once the song was complete, came the daunting task of mentally preparing to put this piece of art out into an unrelenting cascade of content. The thought of sending this particular song out there - another precious work amongst thousands of precious works - relinquished to the abyss of digital platforms with a prayer felt disrespectful, and for Dailey, paralyzing.

“Our job as artists is to stay connected and filter the world genuinely. It’s the reason why Joni persists,” says Dailey.  “But when we all crowd under the same spotlight all the time, indulging an algorithm, sometimes, love and connection gets lost. This vast and wondrous sea of content with every creator trying tastefully to beg our community to click, swipe up, binge, stream, create videos to a sound can end up drowning out the art. I wanted something different for this song.”

“Cover of Clouds” will be traveling with Dailey on this tour, where Dailey will be supporting legendary rock group The Wallflowers. There will be an antique discman on the merch table at every tour stop with the song queued up.  Fans can pay what they like to take the discman and listen to the song before or after the show.  Accompanying the discman will be a journal with artwork, song credits and lyrics, in which listeners can, if they like, leave their name, date, place, reaction, doodles, and dreams. This will be the only way to hear and experience the song. Starting at Nice Fest in Somerville, MA, Dailey will be performing alongside a number of celebrated Boston-based artists and groups.

The first stretch of Dailey’s tour took him across the Northeast and Midwest, performing alongside  a number of celebrated acts including The Wallflowers, Rhett Miller, Tourists, and more. Audiences and listeners praised Dailey for the unique “Cover of Clouds” listening experience, and commemorated their thoughts and experiences in a notebook that accompanied the discman throughout the first leg of the tour.