Red Hot N Blues

An award-winning guitarist and producer in his native Canada, Vancouver-born, Nashville-based Steve Dawson delivered a tour-de-force tribute to blues and roots with his last album, Gone, Long Gone, and continues on the same path here, offering up a hauntingly beautiful all-original, all-instrumental set on which he plays pedal steel instead of six-string.

The second of three releases he’s masterminded during the pandemic, he’s joined by keyboard player Chris Gestrin, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Jeremy Holmes and violinist Fats Kaplin – all of whom contributed to the project remotely from Los Angeles, British Columbia and Music City.

This one’s ideal to spin while you’re relaxing at the end of a long day. Tune in to “Cozy Corner,” “Burnt End,” “Twig Bucket,” “Phantom Threshold,” “You Still Believe in Me,” “Lily’s Resistor,” “That’s How It Goes in the Relax Lounge” and “Whirlwind.”