Catch Us on ‘Oh Brother’ Tour

We’re playing soon in a town near you! Join us! Tickets at https://d6y.7b8.mytemp.website/tour/

Thu 11/7/24 Mill & Mine – Knoxville, TN
Fri 11/8/24 Georgia Theatre – Athens, GA
Sat 11/9/24 Carolina Theatre of Durham – Durham, NC
Sun 11/10/24 The Ryman – Nashville, TN
Wed 11/13/24 Taft Theatre – Cincinnati, OH
Thu 11/14/24 Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
Fri 11/15/24 Vogue – Indianapolis, IN
Sat 11/16/24 Salt Shed – Chicago, IL
Tue 11/19/24 Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
Wed 11/20/24 XL Live – Harrisburg, PA
Thu 11/21/24 Warner Theatre – Washington, DC
Fri 11/22/24 Roadrunner – Boston, MA
Sat 11/23/24 State Theatre – Portland, ME

Fri 12/6/24 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Sun 12/8/24 Solana Beach – Belly Up Solana Beach
Mon 12/9/24 Solana Beach – Belly Up Solana Beach
Fri 12/13/24 San Antonio,TX – Stable Hall
Sat 12/14/24 Houston, TX – The Heights
Sun 12/15/24 Austin, TX – ACL Moody

Wed 4/9/25 Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theatre
Thu 4/10/25 Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
Fri 4/11/25 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
Sat 4/12/25 New York, NY – The Beacon
Sun 4/13/25 Princeton, NJ – Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
Wed 4/16/25 Davenport, IA – Capitol Theatre
Thu 4/17/25 Madison, WI – The Majestic
Fri 4/18/25 Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
Sat 4/19/25 Columbia, MO – Blue Note
Mon 4/21/25 Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place
Wed 4/23/25 Denver, CO – Ogden
Fri 4/25/25 Kalispell, MT – Wachholz College Center
Sat 4/26/25 Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
Sun 4/27/25 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall

NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE: Stories Don’t End 10th

Our Stories Don’t End 10 year anniversary rerelease is finally available for streaming! Click Here to Listen.

You might remember that the vinyl came out and the end of last year, so now all y’all without a record player can listen too. And it’s not some typical anniversary release where it’s just the original recordings with some bonus stuff at the end. The whole album has been remixed (by our compadre Dave Cerminara) and remastered (by Adam Ayan) and it feels like it’s been given a new life. Even with new art by Ian Bush.

The bonus material includes some acoustic demos, some early versions of songs recorded with Blake Mills and Shawn Everett when we were still in the discovery phase, and an outtake of Griff singing an early version of Picture Of A Man.

Follow us on Substack for more inside scoop about this rerelease.

And grab the Stories Don’t End 10th Anniversary Vinyl & T-shirt at our online store.

Stories Don’t End 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Vinyl & Our New Substack

Just in the nick of time too.

And this isn’t the kind of anniversary release where it’s just the original recordings with some bonus stuff at the end. The whole album has been remixed (by our compadre Dave Cerminara) and remastered (by Adam Ayan) and it feels like it’s been given a new life. Even with new art by Ian Bush.

The bonus material includes some acoustic demos, some versions of songs recorded with Blake Mills and Shawn Everett when we were still in the discovery phase, and an outtake of Griff singing an early version of Picture Of A Man.

We’re gonna release it all digitally as well but figured we might as well wait til the new year so that any potential spins aren’t swallowed whole by Mariah Carey and her minions. So for now it’s just vinyl (read this whole post to figure out how to score it for free basically).

AND IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH FOR YOU

We’re also announcing a new Substack account! This is gonna allow us to get a little cozier, dig a little deeper, and go way back into the archives and share the histories of songs, shows and entire albums (starting with ALLLLL of the SDE material we couldn’t fit on this latest offering). It’ll be a place for a bit more intimacy, a bit less brevity and all of the intel we’ve always wanted to share but never had the right platform to.

COOLEST PART COMING UP BELOW

If you subscribe to our founding-member tier on Substack, you get the SDE 10 year vinyl for FREE. YEP, a FREE VINYL RECORD! It doesn’t make a lot of business sense for us. Our managers aren’t proud of this decision. We just like the idea that it can help kick off and accompany this new Substack chapter with the most members of the Dawes family as involved as possible.

Alright, enough from me!

New Vinyl: https://dawes-the-band.myshopify.com/
Join us on Substack: https://dawestheband.substack.com

Covering “I Love” by Tom T Hall

We released a cover of a great song today just for fun. It’s a favorite for my good friend #judgecolvin and for my older son, Gus. Ozzie hasn’t weighed in yet. Play it for yer babies – TG

Click HERE to listen!

Get Dawes Sheet Music

First Dawes songs as sheet music, “All Your Favorite Bands” + “Little Bit Of Everything” Let us know if you learn these so we can hear you.

Grab sheet music RIGHT HERE.

Wylie’s Next Chapter

So I have some really tough news.

After these two runs in March and April, my main man Wylie Gelber is going to be leaving the Dawes lineup.

Some of you may have noticed him building basses, guitars and pedal boards for the band through the years. Well this kind of handiwork of his goes way beyond the music realm and he has become something of a designer/contractor/builder all rolled into one. He’s kind of a genius at all of it (no surprise there) and he’s realized he needs to commit to this path more fully. He still loves us and is going to be cheering us on from the sidelines. And we completely understand and support this big shift in his life despite the Wylie shaped hole in our hearts that no one is ever going to be able to fill.

We’ve been playing music together since he was 15 and I was 18 and Griff was 13. I don’t know what being a musician is without him. He has set the bar for what great bass playing sounds like to me. It’s gonna be hard and tears have been shed but change always leads to some kind of newfound strength and Dawes isn’t going anywhere, I promise.

I admire the hell out of Wylie for making these realizations about himself. But oh will he be missed. There will be a time when he won’t be on the stage with us but he will ALWAYS be a member of this brotherhood and one of my best friends I could have ever asked for. I love you so much, Wylie.

To our sweet fans – we look forward to celebrating Wylie’s last ride with you all on these next two runs. See you out there.

• TG

The Live Album is Here

HAPPY RELEASE DAY

You can finally listen to our live album anywhere you stream music! Find it in our Misadventures of Doomscroller Deluxe Edition.

It was a marathon to get through all this material and committing to completely live takes all in one night in the studio. But it lent the performances a sense of urgency bordering on desperation.

These live recordings feel like how these songs were meant to live. I hope you enjoy!

Stream it now at https://found.ee/Dawes_MisadventuresDeluxe

Watch: Jimmy Kimmel Live

Thanks again to Jimmy Kimmel Live for having us and giving me an excuse to keep writing this song. Hope you all enjoyed it.

New Song: Interest of Time

Today is the 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook. This song, ‘The Interest of Time’, is about the impossible thought process a parent goes through some version of in the aftermath of such an unthinkable atrocity. I wrote this and sang this before either of my sons were born but I don’t think I’m gonna sing it again. 

It’s a sad song. It would be strange to say I hope you enjoy it. But I hope you find some kind of meaning in it for you. A small effort to bring the humanity back to a desensitizingly regular piece of the news cycle.
-TG

Listen at https://found.ee/dawes_interestoftime

Dawes is donating all of their proceeds from this song to the Brady Campaign / Team ENOUGH, and we want to thank our record label, Rounder Records, for their donation to Brady Campaign / Team ENOUGH.

Watch! Livestream in November

Dawes + Bahamas – Broadcasting from the Englert Theatre in Iowa City on November 15

“I thought I was going into this thing with a future nemesis. But I came out of it with a true friend. Between his good looks, his great tunes and his high regard for self care I was prepared to watch my jealousy take over. But he’s too inspiring of a presence, too kind of a soul, too open hearted and collaborative as a musician.

This tour, and the way we did it, will be a very fond memory in the Dawes history books. To everyone that made it out, thank you. I’m so thrilled that we captured some audio and video to share a little of what this tour was all about. Please enjoy Dawhamas.” – TG

Sign up to watch RIGHT HERE.