Julian Dawson

Outside his solo work, acts he has recorded with (as singer or harmonica player) include Gerry Rafferty, Glenn Tilbrook, Del Amitri, Dan Penn, Iain Matthews and his band Plainsong, Richard Thompson and Benny Hill.

In the early 1990s, Dawson turned his attentions to the US, making two albums in Nashville with E Street Band bass-player Garry Tallent producing and a host of local guests, including Vince Gill, Duane Eddy, Bill Payne and Steve Forbert.

More albums followed both as a member of Plainsong with Iain Matthews and solo including Move Over Darling, with Richard Thompson, Dan Penn and the Roches, Under The Sun with Soft Boys Kimberley Rew and Andy Metcalfe and 2002's Hillbilly Zen with ex-Byrd Gene Parsons.

Dawson has performed at festivals such as Newport (US), Cambridge, Cropredy and Glastonbury in England, on tour with Plainsong, Al Stewart, Fairport Convention and others, on TV's Later With Jools Holland (with the Richard Thompson Band) or the Europe-wide Rockpalast with his own.

Dawson's 2008 CD Deep Rain, produced in Nashville by Dan Penn, helped to introduce him to a wider audience and was followed by a band tour, preserved on the double CD/DVD Live, released in 2010.