You are listening to Nakedly Examined Music a podcast about songs and songwriters. My name is Mark

Linsonmeyer. My guest for episode 224 is Steve Dawson. He's based in Chicago and perhaps best known for his work with the band, Dolly Varden.

You're right now hearing their song, Saskatchewan to Chicago, from their last album

for a while from 2013.

That band started recording in the mid-90s, releasing six albums over almost 20 years.

During the last decade of that, he was also

putting out solo material after a duets album with his co-front person from Dalli Varden, Diane

Christensen. He's now had six solo albums, some of the last couple fronting a band called

Funeral Bonsai Wedding. We'll talk about that. We're going to focus in this interview on a mile south of

town, a song from the new album, Ghosts, then look to the Dolly Varden 2000 track, The Dumbest Magnets,

which is the title track of the album by that name, their third album, then look to one of the

EPs by the pre-Dolly Varden band, Stump the host.

The song is Bronco Nogorski from 1989.

We'll conclude by listening to another song off the new album, O California.

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I will have played a little bit of Saskatchewan to Chicago by Dolly Varden from For a While,

2013 to warm people up.

The shape of your career that we're going to talk about.

The third song we're going to talk about is all the way back in 89, right? Is that college? Right after college. I went to college in Boston. I moved to Chicago and started that band Stump the Host. Stump the host was 88 to 92 or something like that. And then Dolly Varden ran from, well, the first album is 2000, right?

No, 95. We did it. We self-released

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