13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Dolly Valentine – How To Be Good

Say ‘Hello Dolly!’ Allow us to introduce you to Dolly Valentine and her new song How To Be Good.

This is the title track from Dolly’s debut album, due out August 21st. We’ll be featuring a Zoom interview with Dolly soon. In the mean time, listen to the music and read the record company blurb below:

Dolly Valentine is an American singer-songwriter born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A confident storyteller whose music expresses heartfelt truths both delicate and intense. Her music has a timeless sound, influenced by retro pop anthems from icons such as The Beach Boys and Tom Petty.

The warm energy of decades past is balanced by varying modern influences from Kacey Musgraves to Sun Kil Moon. Her music dissolves labels and fixes its gaze directly on our basic humanness. Hers is a name you are going to want to know. Listeners all over the world discovered Valentine after she released her first song in 2019, “Michigan, 1997” which was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered.

Dolly recently finished recording her debut full-length album, “How To Be Good” at Bear Creek Studio (Big Thief, Brandi Carlile) with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Vance Joy). The music features an all-star cast of musicians from bands such as Field Medic, Brandi Carlile, Ought, and Illuminati Hotties. The album will be released on August 21, 2020.