After the release of their first album North Hills, Dawes has made a rather permanent place for themselves on the folk music radar. Their music has scored commercials and brought them on tour for bands like Blitzen Trapper and Delta Spirit and even landed them at big time gigs like the Newport Folk Festival.
Lead singer Taylor Goldsmith has also gone on to record a side project called Middle Brother (with John McCauley of Deer Tick and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit) and was invited to collaborate on The Basement Tapes (long-lost lyrics of Bob Dylan that Goldsmith and a star-studded group of musicians like Elvis Costello helped put to music).
The earlier releases of Dawes’ sound has a 70s rock tinge on some tracks and at times just sounds like a collaborative folk jam session. But now, with their fifth studio album release, We’re All Gonna Die, the music of Dawes is now a bit more “experimental”—straying a bit from their Cali folk roots and venturing into the realms of a more synthesized tone as heard on tracks “When the Tequila Runs Out” and “Quitter.” But that was the goal—to take risks and not sound like this band or a little bit like that band, but to sound entirely like Dawes.
Beacon Theatre
3/10
8 p.m.
$35+
Ticketmaster.com
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