Live at Mystic | 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 Be Still (Live at Mystic)

Here is another song that Nick and I did in our little impromptu living room concert back in August 2011. The dog, Waldo, was apparently trying to lick someone’s dinner plate and was getting reprimanded toward the beginning of the song. What can you do about dog drama? 😉 We played a slightly extended version of the song since Nick was there to do some gorgeous soloing on top of it.

This is a song I wrote back in September of 2010 while we were going through a bit of a rocky time financially and not knowing from month to month how we would pay the bills or put food on the table. I hope this song can speak and minister to anyone else who has gone through, or is currently going through a similar trial.
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0 Help Me Get It Right (Live at Mystic)

This is a song I wrote in April 2011 based on the familiar passage found in James 3 about controlling the tongue. This version is part of a little impromptu late night living room concert down in Grants Pass, Oregon on August 18, 2011. My amazingly talented friend, Nick Garrett-Powell joined me with some fantastic accompaniment even though this was the first time he had heard the song!
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0 Hymn #342 (Live at Mystic)

My friend Tanner Johnson came down to Southern Oregon to record his amazing violin talents on some songs we were working on in the studio, and this impromptu concert is what happened later in the evening after a full day in the studio.

This first song we did is my new rendition of Charles Wesley’s first hymn, “Where Shall My Wondering Soul Begin?”, which is found today as Hymn #342 in the United Methodist Hymnal. I took some liberties to convert the hymn into more of a modern worship chorus, and this is the result. Enjoy as Nick Garrett-Powell, Tanner and I jam it up in my parent’s living room.
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