Steve Dawson

Steve Dawson is an award-winning Canadian guitarist, solo artist, songwriter, pedal steel player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer living and working in Nashville, TN. He grew up in Vancouver, where he began to get into music in his early teens, playing in local venues with numerous bands, picking up the bottleneck slide guitar and citing Duane Allman and Ry Cooder as his earliest influences. At 18, Steve spent two years at Boston's Berklee College, before returning to Vancouver, to perform in touring original bands for several years. Dawson is a Vancouver native who has been based in Nashville since 2013. Steve is a versatile musician and multi-instrumentalist but is mostly known as a slide, steel and pedal steel player. Between producing projects for other artists, Steve has recorded music of his own that has explored blues, jazz, Hawaiian, rock, and experimental music. His groundbreaking work with Jesse Zubot in Zubot and Dawson kicked things off in 1998, leading to 2 albums with Toronto jazz stalwarts Andrew Downing and Kevin Turcotte in the award-winning Great Uncles of the Revolution, and Steve's solo recording output started with 2001's Bug Parade, and from there he has released 11 solo albums. He has produced and/or played on more than 300 albums since the turn of the millennium, 7 of which have won Juno Awards. Dawson has produced albums by Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Man Luedecke, The Sojourners, and The Deep Dark Woods. Steve has won 7 Juno Awards as artist/producer, been nominated 18 times, and was named Producer Of The Year 3 times at Western Canadian Music Awards and 4 times at Canadian Folk Music Awards.

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