Dan Colehour

1,055 plays (369 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Add to my Library Share

Born smack-dab in the heart of America, singer/songwriter Dan Colehour grew
up on the very same pastoral, Eastern Iowa turf that inspired and harbored iconic
Americana painter Grant Wood.
It’s an evocative, serene layout of easy rolling hills stamped by patchwork-quilt
fields dotted by farms, sporadically tacked-down by humble towns, which in turn
are laced together by a network of two-lane blacktops that not only provide
connection, but also offer a way out.
Straight To The Highway, Colehour’s debut on Nashville-based Carnival

Recording Co./Universal, is a poignant, heart-thumping collection of heartland
rock and earnest, down-home balladry that explores the restlessness and desires
that not only make a young man venture out into the large world, but can also
bring him back, full circle, to find a big part of the solution parked right where he
left it—in his family and home.
Steeped in the tried-and-true populist rock of Springsteen and Mellencamp with
long, strong threads of Jackson Browne and the Eagles snaking through,
Colehour has arrived at a slightly more rural-oriented, western approach to an
amalgam of the signature styles of all the aforementioned, informed—of course—
by personal experience.
Growing up in Mt. Vernon, Iowa provided Colehour with a balanced, blue-collar
upbringing rooted in hard work, family and an abiding notion that events play
out across the globe, but it’s how they shake down on the home front that
ultimately drives hearts and minds.
“I was raised in the Midwest work ethic,” Colehour emphasizes. I’ve never been