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Union Events is pleased to announce an Edmonton show with California based roots-rockers Dawes w/ Sam Outlaw on July 10, 2015 at The Starlite Room.

While the city of Los Angeles has been both an inspiration and a home to the four members of Dawes, they found themselves traveling east last fall to record their third album in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with newly enlisted producer Jacquire King. The tracks they laid down at Asheville's Echo Mountain Studio have yielded a 12-song disc of tremendous sonic and narrative clarity, book-ended in classic album fashion by two very different versions of the wistful "Just Beneath The Surface" – a misleading title, really, since the songs stacked in between dig so deep. Stories Don't End is not so much a departure from the quartet's previous efforts as a distillation of them. It spotlights the group's maturing skills as arrangers, performers and interpreters who shape the raw material supplied by chief songwriter and lead vocalist Taylor Goldsmith into an artfully concise and increasingly soulful sound.

If Goldsmith's vocal delivery weren't plaintive enough, the band ups the emotional ante with a beautiful wordless coda that intertwines Tay Strathairn's piano and Goldsmith's lead guitar. "Something In Common" is a morning-after shuffle that builds into a bigger and more dramatic track before dropping back to a quiet melancholic finish. Goldsmith takes a few simple words, like "something in common," and uses them like chapter headings to develop a compelling story, full of unexpected twists, from verse to verse. "Someone Will" includes the same kind of word play while boasting a little more swagger.

Nothing Is Wrong had garnered considerable acclaim, with London's Independent declaring, "It's as close to a perfect Americana album as there's been this year."

"The album is very honest," says Strathairn. "It's us."

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