News | Dawson Cowals

Coming soon to a couch near you! We’ve been booking some intimate home shows in the Portland area this summer and are looking for some more homes to invade. So if you would like to host an Acoustic Living Room Concert please let us know!
“Cowals’ tunes are full and captivating whether he is playing solo acoustic guitar or accompanied by a handful of other talented musicians. The multi-talented artist’s flute work and lackadaisical vocal octave jumps throughout certain songs also give these Biblical verse driven tunes a Dave Matthews feel.” —Kelly O’Neil

0 An Evening Chatting & Jamming with Bryan Duncan

I grew up listening to and enjoying Bryan Duncan’s music all through high school and college. He was one of my many musical inspirations and I’m sure influenced some of my songwriting over the years. Recently we’ve been exchanging some tweets and emails and talking about getting together. We discovered that he had previously met and filmed my good friend Nick Garrett-Powell at a performance they were both playing at. My hope was that we could work something out so that we could maybe do a collaboration on a song sometime.
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0 New Lyric Video for “In Their Place”

Released: April 3, 2014

I finally finished a new lyric video in time for Easter for my song “In Their Place” off my 2008 Coffee Shop Songs CD. This song tells the Easter story from Jesus’ point of view starting with him kneeling and praying in the garden, to the Cross, resurrection and empty tomb. It shows Jesus’ cry to the Father to “take me in their place.”

View lyric video for In Their Place.

0 New Song “Keep Me In Your Heart”

I know it’s been over 3 months since I was last able to upload a new song, so here at last is a new song! I started writing this song back in June of 2012 and just finished it this month. It pulls from several scriptures that talk about hiding God’s word in our heart and making room for Jesus in our heart. As it says in Ezekiel, God will replace our hearts of stone with a new one of flesh and put his Spirit in us, where he will come and dwell.
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0 Hello from Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India

Released: February 21, 2014

So we’ve been in Hyderabad, India for 7 days so far on a business trip and will be heading home to the US on Sunday the 23rd. Today we visited the amazing Golconda Fort (also known as Golkonda). Here’s a short little video I shot from the 400 foot top of the massive fort after climbing the more than 1,000 steps to get to the top. The music playing in the background is a sneak peek at an early mix of the next single, “Peace.”
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0 “Shades of Grace” in Top 50 HOPE 107.9 FM Contest

So I just found out today that my song Shades of Grace was selected in the Top 50 for the HOPE 107.9 Songwriter Contest this year! They are having voting from now until Monday the 13th so there is a short amount of time for folks to vote for their 5 favorites. I hope that mine is one of them.

They don’t list the artist name along with the song but you can find it by song title (it was on page 4 I think when I looked) or the direct link below. We will find out next week which songs made the Top 12 cut. Thanks!

VOTE for Shades of Grace