Over the past couple of months, I have had the pleasure of catching some amazing live performances by Dawes, one of my favorite new bands from California.
While the band's sound is one of the most complete embodiments of contemporary "Americana" I can recall, the real treasure is the lyrical mastery and heartfelt emotion of 25-year-old frontman, Taylor Goldsmith. Dawes's studio albums, "North Hills" and, "Nothing is Wrong" are as smoothly digestible as sweet tea, while Goldsmith's Springsteen-esque on-stage delivery punches you straight in the gut, just to make sure you're alive.
As a little taste of Goldsmith's keen sense for the ironic and romantic, try on this verse from, "Million Dollar Bill"....
When it hits me that she's gone
I think I'll be a movie star
Play the finest men the world has ever seen
And when these lovers that she's found
Show her ways they've learned to talk to her
Behind each perfect word, there'll be a little bit of me.
While the band's sound is one of the most complete embodiments of contemporary "Americana" I can recall, the real treasure is the lyrical mastery and heartfelt emotion of 25-year-old frontman, Taylor Goldsmith. Dawes's studio albums, "North Hills" and, "Nothing is Wrong" are as smoothly digestible as sweet tea, while Goldsmith's Springsteen-esque on-stage delivery punches you straight in the gut, just to make sure you're alive.
As a little taste of Goldsmith's keen sense for the ironic and romantic, try on this verse from, "Million Dollar Bill"....
When it hits me that she's gone
I think I'll be a movie star
Play the finest men the world has ever seen
And when these lovers that she's found
Show her ways they've learned to talk to her
Behind each perfect word, there'll be a little bit of me.
