As a young man in the small town of Welling ton, Ohio, JT Daly lived in search of signals, and, despite the relative quiet, they often came through in abundance. He had Stephen King novels, Radiohead, a love of vampires, a Bible -haunted community, and a beloved but mysterious uncle, John Terrence Kelly, who designed geodesic domes and would rendezvous with Andy Warhol. This was and is his mix, a legacy of righteous weirdness to live up to repeatedly in sound and color, story and song. He sums this ethic up in a couple of guiding aphorisms. One can feel like a bit of a downer: “Art is hard. The other throws down a gauntlet: "Evolve or die.”

He now means to take on his own inertia (and the inertia of others) within a communal collective called The Voodoo Children with an aptly named debut: Instant Nostalgia.

These players served as JT’s dream band of beloved co-conspirators. It was a lovingly arduous process which involved sharing, talking about, pitching, and performing his vision. Today, often holed-up in his own East Nashville space, dubbed Mother Mary Kelly Studio after his grandmother, JT has found his mix, his people, and a way of arranging lights and shadows to make it all new again amid the decay. Instant Nostalgia brings it all back home.

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