Julian Dawson - How Can I Sleep Without You

Julian Dawson performs "How Can I Sleep Without You", a song he also recorded as a duet with Lucinda Williams, in concert.

Julian Dawson was born in London 4th July 1954, the same day that Elvis first got together with Scotty and Bill to invent rocknroll. He is one of seven brothers.

He passed nine misspent years in two Catholic boarding schools and three good ones at Art College, before deciding to take up music full time and playing his first professional jobs for the US army in Germany. After a return to London, he learned his craft on the road all over Europe and the UK with various band line-ups, playing his own songs from day one and eventually landing his first record deal.

One pub-rock influenced LP was followed by two albums for Polydor, both recorded at the legendary Can Studio near Cologne with Jaki Liebezeit and guests Richard Thompson and Toots Thielemans. As Real As Disneyland garnered album-of-month status and sold well in the German-speaking territories, setting a pattern of Dawson having more success abroad than at home that has remained a feature of his career so far.

In the early nineties Julian turned his attentions to the USA, making two albums in Nashville with E Street Band bass-player Garry Tallent producing and a host of local guests, including Vince Gill, Duane Eddy, Bill Payne and Steve Forbert. Fragile As China charted in Germany and helped him build a radio presence and a solid following in the USA, where he still tours at least once a year.

Visits to the States, and Nashville and Austin in particular, became a regular part of his life, leading to further recordings (five in all for BMG) and co-writes and collaborations with artists such as Dan Penn, Willie Nile, Nicky Hopkins, Jules Shear and Lucinda Williams, with whom he also recorded a memorable duet version of How Can I Sleep Without You.

For several years he kept together a phenomenal live band, featuring guitarist Steuart Smith (now with the Eagles). More albums followed both as a member of Plainsong with Iain Matthews and solo including Move Over Darling, with Richard Thompson, Dan Penn and the Roches, Under The Sun with Soft Boys Kimberley Rew and Andy Metcalfe and 2002s Hillbilly Zen with ex-Byrd Gene Parsons.

Sharp-eyed music lovers may have caught Julian at festivals such as Newport (USA), Cambridge, Cropredy and Glastonbury in England, on tour with Plainsong, Al Stewart, Fairport Convention and others, on TVs Later With Jools Holland (with the Richard Thompson Band) or the Europe-wide Rockpalast with his own.

In 1996 he produced country legend Charlie Louvins comeback album The Longest Train and later appeared with him at the BBC Proms. His most recent CD Deep Rain, produced in Nashville by soul legend Dan Penn helped to introduce him to a wider audience and he is currently producing a first solo album for Beverley Martyn. 2010 will see the first publication of his long-awaited biography of Nicky Hopkins. Meanwhile he continues to tour and record with undiminished energy.

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