Here you can read the summary of John Dalton's blues. He had mis-stepped in college and got boot-strapped to the New Jersey shoreline with the Rest of America and he was poor, yes very poor, and quick-snap to the wit, like he was sating there waiting to say something. He caught the criminals by the station door. He shouted off after them. Didn't have anything to lose.
“You're atrociously self-conscious. You've got an STD. You're poor, you're white, you're a little slow.” He gave all the convicts these lines they could use in their stand for the judge. Many of them took this advice as sacred. John Dalton thought it sacred to deliver salvation; to deliver tailored, timely excuses to individuals in the most wanted list.
John Dalton got caught committing fraud by the Jersey police, who thought he was a lunatic, messing with court proceedings and so he was fined, taken off the spot, forced to move, everything going wrong for him. John Dalton, he got the blues. He tried to keep his new home free of any criminal activity at all, lest he be tricked into dealing unsolicited legal advice. It was always a spell that brought him down, a paranoid thought or two that had him climbing up the walls.
He went to song to free himself of the neurotic tendencies he developed after helping the criminals. He wrote songs, and it fulfilled him. John Dalton was a famous blues singer, who we have few to compare with. We think he must have some genius in him, of course we must. The song “You Look A Little Slow” was a custom-tailored blues bow-tie, a perfect vision of the fashion and society in the blues lifestyle. Then, “You're Poor, You're White,” not to mention, won the Blues Culture Award for capturing a mid-town sentimentality in the lyrics.
The black community felt it was a clear win for the genre and for civil rights. The freedom in the songs was a concept understood by everyone; black, white, brown, even old, young, even rich, poor. John Dalton was very much like a savior to the American community. His penetrating cold stare, his edgy, hip tone, and most of all, his excellent arguments for the liberation of all criminals from prisons throughout the world. He paved the way for those cats to get out of jail. The songs went so viral, entire court sessions were dominated by communal music-making. There was no precedent, except, perhaps, by the Beatles, of such a kind of liberation of the people from the music of a man, John Dalton.