That’s not saying that Dana’s music is old music, or that it’s boring. It’s retro sounding but it also sounds new and fun. Sure, his songs fit in the past but he taps into a nostalgia that feels refreshing. Like that old Oldsmobile, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?

The first song, "Come Into My Studio" is equal parts Sesame Street, Partridge Family and Mister Rogers Neighborhood where you can imagine Dana driving in a little car around the back lot. Plus it tells you, right in the song, what the parts of a song are “The Bridge it sort of changes to a totally different key, then it moves around and ends up back where it was, well you’ll see.”  Then, if that’s not enough to grab you, he humbly adds “It’s kind of a mess, I know.” It’s like those little bits where Davy Jones used to say cute little blurbs like “I know, I know, it’s cause I’m short, I know.” How can you not love the guy after that level of cuteness?
Dana Countryman is like experiencing music in a time machine, he’s part Encino Man, trapped in a block of ice from a more innocent time and he’s part the kind of guy your parent’s would NEVER warn you about, the nice guy who was every parent’s dream. Like a game show host with the ability to write smooth, catchy music you’d swear was recorded between the 1950s and 1960s.