Steve Dawson: I Will Miss The Trumpets and the Drums

Steve Dawson is the main songwriter for Chicago band Dolly Varden, an underground favorite that never made it big. He is a folk-rocker who uses his solo output for slower, softer songs. He teaches songwriting at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and his new album I Will Miss The Trumpets and the Drums is a 101 for making his musical intentions clear: creating melodic pop songs with memorable lyrics. Dawson mainly sings about love gone bad, a subject as old as the hills, but he fin...

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