Jason Dunn of Hawk Nelson: Erased

Labeled: The Stories, Rumors & Legends of Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth and Nail Records

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4.9 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Jason Dunn started Hawk Nelson in 2000 with his pals northeast of Ontario where they were like thousands of other aspiring garage bands who just loved to make noise until a connection with Trevor McNevan towed them in to ride the wave of pop punk right into the height of Tooth & Nail's dominance. In the decade that followed they enjoyed great success, became a business with a full team and commercial momentum of their own until the commercial trends began to shift leaving Jason to feel an internal dissonance that he didn't know how to resolve...

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0:00.0	If you want to get even ultra more depressed,
0:02.4	not only the livelihood I'd built with that band,
0:05.0	but the friendships over all the years,
0:07.2	the guys we toured with every single friend I made on the road
0:10.5	dropped me like a fly.
0:12.6	And I've had a few conversations with people over the years,
0:14.5	and they apologize.
0:15.7	They're like, I don't know why we felt this,
0:17.7	but it's like, we had to choose.
0:19.4	You or Hawk, and he's like, we had to go with Hawk.
0:22.3	It's a long and lonely road.
0:25.1	It's a long and lovely road.
0:33.9	Welcome back to Labeled.
0:35.4	I'm your host, Matt Carter.
0:36.5	And today's conversation is with Jason Dunn of Hawk Nelson, who's part of the Canadian alumni of Tooth and Nail.
0:43.0	Now, Jason was and is an incredible writer, singer, and frontman with a huge smile, and he could always bring the energy and connect with any audience.
0:51.4	But at some point, it became hard for him to authentically maintain that smile.
0:56.1	And I love this conversation because it's just so cool to have the opportunity to hear the
1:00.1	human experiences behind this stuff that are so universal, but at the same time, completely
1:04.8	unique to the specific unfolding of their times and places.
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1:11.7	It's a fun and healthy online group that helps shape this show,
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