Dawes
Taylor Goldsmith on digging jazz, doing things on his own terms, and Dylan confusing him with Taylor Swift.
ROBERT PLANT: ED MILES/PRESS; DAWES: GETTY; JOHN PAUL JONES: KEVIN NIXON
“I’d probably be a better lead singer of a rock band if I could stop smiling so much on stage,” jokes Taylor Goldsmith. This summer, you can’t blame the affable Dawes frontman for smiling. He and his wife Mandy Moore are expecting their second child, and he’ll be touring behind Dawes’s eighth album, Misadventures Of Doomscroller. While more adventurously proggy than their previous records, it still carries what Goldsmith calls the “Dawes DNA” – aguitar-driven California breeze threaded through philosophical lyrics. We caught up with him to chat about everything from progressive jazz “I got immersed in to fatherhood. jazzier things.