{"id":837,"date":"2011-07-08T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/retro-rock-with-las-dawes.html"},"modified":"2011-07-08T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:54:00","slug":"retro-rock-with-las-dawes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/retro-rock-with-las-dawes.html","title":{"rendered":"Retro rock with LA’s Dawes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ONE of my favorite newish West Coast bands is the LA quartet Dawes<\/a>, who both draw from the classical canyon rock of the 60s and 70s and work to carve their individual place in the tradition. The voices of Jackson Browne, the Byrds, Neil Young and others echo through their songs.<\/p>\n

HERE<\/a> is my profile of the band in today’s LA Times.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed talking to singer\/guitarist Taylor Goldsmith: We could have discussed music all day. (I especially enjoyed the alt-country version of the Replacements “Achin’ to Be” he knocked out on his J-45.) Taylor\u00a0told me he and the gang run a wedding band as a side project where they play Motown and Stax\/Volt songs — I’m tempted to get married again just to book these guys to play.<\/p>\n

When I’m away from California, playing Dawes’ music in the car is one of my best way to remember my adopted home state. Weirdly, at a restaurant last night I heard “Time Spent in Los Angeles.”<\/p>\n

Please note: An editor at the Times wrote a deck suggesting that the band lives in Laurel Canyon. For all their roots in that sound, these guys are rockin in La Crescenta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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