Lacy J Dalton ~ 16th Avenue (original version)

Lacy J Dalton, a country music singer and songwriter with a deep gritty and soulful vocal delivery, has an instantly recognizable voice. She had a number of upper-level hits in the 1980s on the Columbia label. However, during a seven year chart run, Dalton was unable to garner a number one single, which was a rare occurrence for anyone working under the helm of producer Billy Sherrill. Dalton was born Jill Byrem in Bloomsburg, PA, on October 13, 1946 and grew up in a highly musical family. Her father played a variety of stringed instruments, sang and wrote country songs. Her mother played guitar, wrote and sang harmony and her sister played piano and guitar. Lacy’s early influences were the original country music of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s and later, folk and rock sounds. Dalton briefly attended Brigham Young University but dropped out and drifted around the country for a time. She eventually went to Los Angeles and then migrated to Santa Cruz, where she performed as a folksinger. During the late ’60s, she sang with a Bay Area psychedelic rock band called Office. During that time she married the group’s manager and began going by the name of Jill Croston. Sometime later, her husband died in a swimming pool accident. During the late 1970s Lacy reinvented herself as a country singer adopting the stage name of Lacy J. Dalton. Subsequently, her band was named the Dalton gang. In order to further her musical aspirations, she relocated to Nashville at the close of the decade …
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