Associated acts Zubot and Dawson Name Steve Dawson | Music group Zubot and Dawson | |
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Instruments guitar, Weissenborn lap steel guitar Role Guitarist · stevedawson.ca Albums Funeral Bonsai Wedding Nominations Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo, Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year Similar People Jesse Zubot, Old Man Luedecke, Geoff Berner | ||
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Steve Dawson is a Canadian guitarist, singer and music producer.
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Career
Steve Dawson has produced albums by Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Man Luedecke, The Sojourners, and The Deep Dark Woods. He has won two Juno Awards. His "frequent collaborators [include] Chris Gestrin (keys), Keith Lowe (bass), and Geoff Hicks (drums)". His 2004 Juno Award was for Contemporary Jazz Album with the Great Uncles of the Revolution. His 2003 Juno Award was for Roots/Traditional Group Album with Zubot and Dawson. In 2007, 2008, and 2009 he won the producer of the year award from the Western Canadian Music Awards.
His guitar playing has been called "organic [and] flowing", and it includes "...amazing slide and fingerstyle guitar work,... Hawaiian guitar, and psychedelic pedal steel" playing. His album Nightshade was "listed in the “Top 10 Guitar Albums of the Year - 2011” by Acoustic Guitar Magazine."
In 2005, 2006, and 2010 he won the Canadian Folk Music Award. He also won the Independent Canadian Music Award for Roots Album Of The Year twice, in 2000 and 2002. In 2002, he won the Grand Prix de Jazz de Montreal at the Montreal Jazz Festival with The Great Uncles of the Revolution.