Mike Dawes, Acoustic Guitarist

Your World of Creativity

Mark Stinson

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5.0 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike Dawes is hailed as one of the world’s finest modern acoustic guitar players. He was voted ‘Best Acoustic Guitarist in the World’ by Total Guitar Magazine & MusicRadar twice consecutively, in both the 2017 & 2018 readers polls with three additional 2nd place rankings.

His solo music, littered with virtuoso nuances and micro-techniques, has seen him tour almost every continent on the planet. He has recorded with multiple Grammy award-wining and Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inducted artists, featured on international film and TV (including Better Call Saul and Sky TV’s Guitar Star) and achieved over 100 million music video hits online for his solo covers of songs including Somebody That I Used To Know, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Jump & One as well as his originals The Impossible, Boogie Shred & more.

Additionally, Mike tours as lead guitar player for Justin Hayward, performing The Moody Blues classics throughout the world. He has also teamed up with grammy-nominated Periphery vocalist Spencer Sotelo and ex Sunrise Avenue multi-platinum producer Jukka Backlund to form Nik Mystery, a Las Vegas popwave trio. Other collaborators include Plini, Fink, Alestorm & Dr. John. Popular YouTube personality Rick Beato has praised Mike’s work as among the top in the genre.

September 2022 saw the release of ‘Accomplice Series, Vol. 3‘ – a sublime duo EP with the legendary Tommy Emmanuel recorded live in a Los Angeles studio with analogue equipment. The EP features 5 cover songs from 5 diverse artists. ‘This is so insanely mental and such a massive honour, wow’ – Matty Healy, The 1975.

Tickets for upcoming tour dates at https://mikedawes.co.uk/tour/

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0:00.0	Happy to your most original thinking. Organize your ideas and create the
0:11.1	opportunities to launch your creative work. Unlocking your world of creativity with
0:17.6	best-selling author and brand-innovator Mark Stinson. Welcome back friends to our
0:23.8	podcast Unlocking your world of creativity. We're just so happy today to have
0:28.7	guitarist Mike Gaws, one of the world's finest and most creative modern
0:32.8	finger-style guitarist Mike. So glad to have you on the program. Hey it's a
0:37.1	pleasure to be here. Lovely, lovely to be here. And we're stamping our creative
0:40.5	passport in Bristol, UK and I had a chance to see you at the Egyptian
0:44.7	theatre here in Boise with Justin Hayward. What a great collaboration that must
0:49.2	have been for you over the years. Man you know what it's crazy I just a couple of
0:53.2	days ago finished a UK tour with Justin. Same kind of show but we did it over here
0:57.8	in England actually. And I was saying to him man it's next year will be 10
1:02.7	years that I've been working with Justin which is such an honor because you know
1:08.4	in this creative pursuit of being a professional musician there is such a
1:13.0	thing. One of the hardest things that it was to keep the gig you know what I mean
1:17.0	like so many ways nowadays through social media and sort of networking that one
1:21.5	can kind of get their foot in the door but to think that you know the guy that
1:24.6	wrote nights in my satin has kept me some random kid from Bristol around you
1:29.4	know as this kind of right-hand man for almost 10 years is truly heartwarming.
1:32.8	It definitely makes the parents proud. There you go because they know the
1:35.4	Moody Blues. The great dystography. It's actually funny when Justin first
1:39.4	messaged me back in 2013. I didn't recognize the name Moody Blues but I
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