Songwriters, by their very nature, move through life not only from the inside out, but also from the outside in. They look and listen at the worlds within and around them, pulling it all in and pouring it all out in melody. The barriers between personal and political, fact and fiction, us and them do not exist within the confines of a song. Music is about connecting hearts through art, as singer/songwriter Will Dailey well proves on his newest offering, Golden Walker, calling on us to turn away from our screens and toward each other.

Will Dailey is an acclaimed independent recording and performing artist. His sound has been described as having a rich vintage vibe while having a firm appreciation of AM rock, pop and big hooks leading famed Rock journalist Dan Aquilante to call him “the real deal”. Dailey's latest album, National Throat, has been met with stellar reviews, over 8 million spins on Spotify, top 20 on Billboard Heat Seeker chart and won Album of the Year in the Boston Music Awards, New England Music Awards and Improper Bostonian Magazine. Dailey, who is already a three-time winner of the Boston Music Award for Best Singer/Songwriter and two time winner for Male vocalist also won Artist of the Year in 2014.  Most recently in 2016 he shared the stage with Eddie Vedder in Chicago this summer, joining him for 5 songs for the Hot Stove Cool Music Benefit and was direct support for G Love’s summer tour. In June of 2013 he was featured on a Stephen King/John Mellencamp project produced by T Bone Burnett called Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County and, in that same year, also released an original song he wrote inspired by Jack Kerouac's Tristessa.  In September of 2013 he played his fourth Farm Aid Concert along side Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp. Dailey's music has been featured on over 50 TV programs and films and is now back in the studio recording some exclusive material for fans and the follow up to National Throat in 2017. Dailey has become an artist to watch not just now but indefinitely.

In 2025 Stereo Embers claimed: “The Boston-born Will Dailey is one of the most affecting, soulful and moving singers you'll ever hear. His back catalog, which features records like Goodbye Red Bullet, National Throat, Golden Walker and his new one Boys Talking, is a perfect discography that filled with rootsy soul, road-kissed Americana and wrenching ballads that make you miss everyone you ever lost. Will's resume' is a winning read: he's signed to a major label, played with Juliana Hatfield, Peter Buck and Eddie Vedder, opened for The Wallflowers, received endless critical acclaim and played the Folk, Americana, and Roots Hall of Fame induction ceremony, paying tribute to the late Richie Havens. Will Dailey is the real deal--a singer with tremendous range and poetic prowess and if you want to classify him as one of the best kept secrets in music, that's fine, but he's one secret that shouldn't be kept. Art is valuable and Will Dailey's creativity in how to distribute art is reminding us of its joy, its dynamism and that it's not something to be thrown around or thrown away.”

Will Dailey has 7 full length albums. Multiple EPs, 7 inch releases, singles and a $10 Dollar Song.

“11 tracks with a ’70s vibe for a modern age — gliding synths, amusing instrumentation, and enthralling lyrics — the record entices listeners to engage with the individual lesson of each song.” — Cowboys & Indians

“utterly infectious.” — Culture Collide

““Dailey’s latest album makes it clear that good songwriting isn’t a matter of hiding behind shiny production or an over-stylized persona. His music doesn’t contain a note of pretense. If anything, it is committed to the beauty of simplicity.” ”

— Jon Karr, New York Minute Magazine

“How good is Will Dailey? HE WROTE A SONG CALLED “WHEN IT DIES” THAT MAGICALLY UPLIFTS. A GEM OF A MELODY SITS AT THE CENTER OF A WONDERFULLY MUSICAL MESS WITH HUGE VOCALS. ALL AT ONCE THE TUNE RECALLS JAMES TAYLOR’S SIMPLICITY, RAY LAMONTAGNE’S INTENSITY AND TOM WAITS’ WEIRDNESS. The rest of the new album, ‘Golden Walker ,’ possesses the same magic ....A new peak.”

— The Boston Herald

“sophisticated, a moving artistic statement.” — Twangville

“We listen to a record and find ourselves curled up in the audible blanket the lyrics form around us. When it came to Will Dailey and Golden Walker, well, I found a lot more. A can of worms, as they say, was opened wide as we got onto topics that plague my mind each and every day. From this generation being coddled to the perspective of the white male to technology being the ultimate fall of civilization.
Again, Will Dailey is a musician but the ideas brought forth on his latest release, Golden Walker, sparked conversations that I could write research papers on for months, years even.” — ZO Magazine

“A musical lava lamp.” — The Boston Globe

““Think of Will Dailey as an up-and-coming Paul Simon... “It Already Would Have Not Worked Out By Now” is the bright star of this self-released CD, complete with catchy acoustic guitar and witty word play. Dailey is in-tune to an era (1970s) when singer-songwriters were the true stars of popular music — he then reshapes the structure of a song for the 21st Century.”— Goldmine

“He still cares about the art of songwriting and making an emotional impression in his music. His new album, ‘Golden Walker,’ is rich in subtleties, lyrical insights and a sense of hope. He evokes a Paul Simon intricacy at times, a Jeff Buckley fragility at others, topping it with challenging folk-pop and a breezy, almost Motown soul flair in the first single, ‘Bad Behavior.’ The clincher for me is ‘He Better Be Alive,’ a driving, percussive track inspired by the nightly news. Dailey has a wonderfully elastic voice, a natural sense of poetry, and a restless mind that looks for answers and often takes us to them.” — Steve Morse