The debut single by the new band formed by Nic Dalton out of the ashes of his previous act The Gloomchasers. It has been fourteen years since the last album of Nic’s songs (if you don’t count the bubblegum outfit The Sticker Club and the psychedelic four-tracks of Chewee) which was the Gloomchasers album Play All Night. The Gloomchasers morphed from bluegrass/folkrock into a regular guitar/keyboard-based band so a name change made sense, hence The Dairy Joys.

With the album due out late 2025, here is “Wishful Thinking”, featuring Leticia Nischang on lead vocals, Nic Dalton and Elmo Reed on guitars, Luke Russell on bass, John Encarnacao on keyboards and Peter Velzen on drums. Nic and Pete previously played together in the Plunderers and this is their first recording since the late 80s. Nic and Elmo started playing music together even before that…in 1983.

“Wishful Thinking” was written and recorded by Nic Dalton, mixed by Tim Kevin at Tempe River Studio and mastered by William Bowden.