Terrascope UK

A man who sure knows his way round a Weissenborn guitar is Steve Dawson whose new album Gone, Long Gone has been on my stereo plenty since arriving a month or so ago. He is a master guitar player, who since moving to Nashville in 2103 has been busy surrounding himself with some fine musicians like fiddle player Fats Kaplin, in demand drummer Jay Bellerose, Hammond player extraordinaire Kevin McKendree etc. But the show belongs to Steve whose slide guitar playing is up there with some of the top players like David Lindley and his vocals are on the warm side think JJ Cale or Jim Croce. It ranges from the brass inflected opener ‘Dimes’ and rocks out on ‘Skeletons In A Car’, through to sublime Hawaiian style songs like ‘Kulaniapia Waltz’. Favourites are ‘Bad Omens’, and ‘Just Get Lost’, it also features a very cool cover of the old Faces song ‘Ooh La La’, his playing is fabulous on point throughout this album. Apparently he is going to putting out an ambient pedal steel album in the not too distant future!