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About
Your Old Radio features a compelling landscape of musical guests, but it is really the work of two longtime friends and collaborators, Stephen Dawson and Jarrett Nicolay, whose musical partnership began as members of Virginia Coalition, a hilarious, tuneful and funky direct descendant of Little Feat that was founded in the late ‘90s and still sells out large rooms all over the DMV today. The debut album, One in a Row, retains VACO’s runaway train exuberance, but redirects the energy towards Dawson’s remarkable collection of new songs — Graceland as reimagined by Big Star.
Steve Dawson
Steve is a singer-songwriter from Alexandria, Virginia who plays guitar, racketball and occasionally coaches third base. He's also a die hard Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan whose wardrobe is mainly of the creamsicle variety. GO BUCS!
Jarrett Nicolay
Jarrett Nicolay is a songwriter from Alexandria, Virginia. Recording under the moniker My New Mixtape, Nicolay has self produced and released three full length albums to date. Nicolay’s songwriting prioritizes originality while maintaining a pop sensibility and has been featured in indie films including this years Sundance favorite “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore”. Jarrett owns and operates Mixtape Studios.
Steve Dawson
Steve is a singer-songwriter from Alexandria, Virginia who plays guitar, racketball and occasionally coaches third base. He's also a die hard Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan whose wardrobe is mainly of the creamsicle variety. GO BUCS!
Jarrett Nicolay
Jarrett Nicolay is a songwriter from Alexandria, Virginia. Recording under the moniker My New Mixtape, Nicolay has self produced and released three full length albums to date. Nicolay’s songwriting prioritizes originality while maintaining a pop sensibility and has been featured in indie films including this years Sundance favorite “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore”. Jarrett owns and operates Mixtape Studios.
Listen
One in a Row is full of poignant, angry, hopeful theories, blessed hooks and something like a pathway forward. A new classic for a nervous time.
Take the lilting, buzzing melody of “Carry Your Own Shit,” which weds the sound and sentiment of an early-Costello kiss-off to a tugging, don’t-shoot-the-messenger vocal. Or the Randy Newman-esque “Soft Water Blues” which starts with the very Randy Newman couplet: “It’s mid-November/ and you’re buried in the garden.” From the Mats-urgent “Gravity Bong” (he finds it) to the all-time-great-terrible-advice anthem “Bad Motivator,” One in a Row is thirteen songs in 31 minutes that represents the finest writing of Dawson’s already remarkable career.
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