He gets people standing up when he sits down.
He uses rock and soul music to pay reverence to his roots in the church.
And pedal steel guitar player Robert Randolph loves the Hudson Valley, where he has performed often.
For those of us in the Connecticut and New York area, the closing of The Towne Crier a few years ago was a sad day for the local music scene. We thought the old place would probably be torn down. Enter Daryl Hall and his love of renovating old buildings and Viola! the old shindigs have been transformed into contemporary music venue and restaurant.
In something of a Hudson Valley homecoming, Sulton on Saturday will perform at Daryl's House, a music venue and restaurant in Pawling that Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates opened in October.
This weekend I took a crew of seven to Daryl’s House on Rt. 22 (formerly The Towne Crier) and we had the best time ever!
Let me break this down piece by piece.
For more than 90 minutes Friday night, former Dutchess County resident Daryl Hall and his longtime band mate John Oates – known around the globe as Hall and Oates – sent about 300 people packed into the former Towne Crier on Route 22 in Pawling into a foaming frenzy.