Mike Daly

Mike Daly and his guitar. Source: Mike Daly

Mike Daly is a producer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist who grew up in Roselle Park, NJ. Daly attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1994. Soon after, he joined the band Swales and recorded one album, What's His Name? for Bar/None Records. Daly first came to prominence as the Whiskeytown resident multi-instrumentalist / co-writer. He wrote one song on the Pneumonia album and has contributed to all of Caitlin Cary's solo releases. In one incident, Daly dragged Ryan Adams, at the time the Whiskeytown frontman, away from security at The Fillmore when they attempted to restrain him after he kicked the monitors into the crowd.

His songs have been recorded by such artists as Guy Clark, James Iha, Tommy Stinson and Hope Partlow. Mike is currently writing and producing many artists, some with whom he has worked include Stephen Kellogg, the Pernice Brothers, Ambulance LTD, Patrick Park, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Marie Digby, Georgia, The Plain White T's, Jessie Baylin and Donavon Frankenreiter. Additionally, Daly has served as a panelist at the South by Southwest Festival.

In 2008 Daly wrote his first book, entitled Time Flies When You're In A Coma: The Wisdom Of The Metal Gods, a book which the publisher describes as a collection of "Zen Questions, Daily Affirmations, Meditations, and Words of Wisdom" based on Heavy metal songs. It was released on October 28, 2008. He writes an advice column for FriendsorEnemies.com called "What Would A Metal God Do"

Daly is represented exclusively by Jim Phelan and Jerimaya Grabher of Global Positioning Services in Santa Monica, CA..

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