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Artist
Dawn Smithson
12+ albums
folkguitarmelancholicsinger-songwriterindie folk
about
Dawn Smithson played bass guitar and sang in Jessamine; a band that released three albums on Kranky, singles on several other labels and contributed a track to the epic Music of the Spheres compilation on the Drunken Fish label. Dawn left Jessamine to pursue a career in fashion design. She did have plans to put out an acoustic-based solo album then, but by the time she moved from Portland to Seattle, United States and found herself immersed in school, there was no time for music. After school came the stressful jobs with long hours. Dawn Smithson started playing again after she moved into a little house by herself. She found that she needed to be alone to work on music again. So Dawn started to play guitar again - something she had barely touched since Jessamine broke up. Dawn Smithson describes the time alone as "the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have realized that I am a guitarist and singer-songwriter first and foremost. I love bass guitar, but it never gave me the satisfaction I get from doing it all. I have never experienced so much freedom in music. I think all this freedom was very instrumental in the creation of these songs." Since reentering the music world, Dawn Smithson has recently contributed on bass in live performances and recordings with Sunn O))) (White 2, The Libations of Samhain) and on vocals in Ginnungagap (100% Downer). Beginning in 2004 Dawn Smithson began making demo recordings at home. Dawn's voice, which had always been the center poi
