Ron Gallo’s whimsical “Fine Diners and Finer Whiners” gets a surreal visual counterpart

Ron Gallo teamed up with Dog Days Films’ Caitlin McCann to make the music video for “Fine Diners and Finer Whiners,” a track taken from Gallo’s debut solo effort Ronny.  Loosely following the song’s narrative of feeling out of place and wanting to get back to something familiar, the subtly dark clip shows Gallo waking up in a coffin behind a Philadelphia rowhome and his subsequent journey of getting back to his house with the help of a postman. Dialogue intertitles and technicolor kaleidoscope scenes cast a disorientating dream-sequence aura over the video, though the lyrics are still as sharply true and dryly humorous as you would expect from Gallo tune.

The song itself is a standout from Ronny (released last month via Gallo’s own American Diamond Recordings) and as Sameer Rao wrote in his review, “a look below this whimsical song’s surface reveal some more universal preoccupations… of feeling “awfully tired and alone” and wishing for a past love or some feeling of safety to return to him. This song, mid-tempo and subdued, weaves a tapestry of aural influences and lyrical preoccupations that subvert its easy classification (Americana, folk-rock, etc.) and get under listeners’ skin.”  Check it out below and learn more about American Diamond Recordings here.