Steve Lawson (musician)
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Steve Lawson
| image = Steve Lawson.jpg
| caption = Steve Lawson performing live
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name =
| birth_place =
| birth_date = 1972
| genre = Jazz fusion, loop music, world music, progressive rock, ambient music, new-age, experimental, doom metal
| occupation = Musician, journalist, teacher
| instrument = Bass guitar
| years_active = 1993–present
| label = Pillow Mountain
| associated_acts = #TORYCORE, Michael Manring, Trip Wamsley, Lobelia, Theo Travis, Calamateur, Daniel Berkman, Julie Slick, Roy Dodds, Patrick Wood, Neil Alexander, Murphy McCaleb, Jon Thorne, Jez Carr, Andy Williamson
| website = [http://www.stevelawson.net www.stevelawson.net]
}}
Steve Lawson (born 1972) is a British bass guitarist. Based in Birmingham, England, Lawson regularly tours in the United States and Europe. He has supported Level 42 and 21st Century Schizoid Band, worked as a third of the political doom metal band #TORYCORE, and performed and recorded as a duo with his wife, singer Lobelia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stevelawson.net/review-solo-show-croydon-fairfield-halls-no-warning-e-zine/|title=Review – solo show, Croydon Fairfield Halls (No Warning e-zine)|website=Stevelawson.net|access-date=7 May 2020}}{{Cite web|url=http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/blog-posts/torycore-interview-lucy-ellinson-steve-lawson/|title=Mayfest|date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224942/http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/blog-posts/torycore-interview-lucy-ellinson-steve-lawson/|access-date=10 August 2020|archive-date=2016-03-03}}
Lawson releases his music through his Pillow Mountain label and Bandcamp. His albums have included solo works, duets, and trio with live looping, mingling layers of sounds generated from a bass guitar.{{Cite web|url=https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/interview-with-steve-lawson/|title=Interview with Steve Lawson|date=July 20, 2015|website=Keithmcmillen.com}} As a music journalist he contributes to Bassist, Guitarist magazine, The Independent On Sunday, Third Way magazine, Bass Player, and Bass Guitar magazine.
He teaches bass guitar in Birmingham.{{Cite web|url=https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/interview-with-steve-lawson/|title=Interview with Steve Lawson|date=20 July 2015|website=Keithmcmillen.com|access-date=7 May 2020}} In 2015 Bass Guitar magazine published an in depth interview with him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicradar.com/bass|title=Bass guitar news, reviews and tutorials|website=Musicradar.com|access-date=7 May 2020}}
Equipment
Discography
- And Nothing but the Bass (2000)
- Lessons Learned from an Aged Feline, Pt I (2001)
- Not Dancing for Chicken (2002)
- Grace and Gratitude (2004)
- Lessons Learned From an Aged Feline, Pt II (2004)
- Behind Every Word (2006)
- Lessons Learned From an Aged Feline, Pt III (2006)
- Ten Years On: Live in London (2010)
- 11 Reasons Why 3 is Greater than Everything (2011)
- Believe in Peace (2012)
- What the Mind Thinks, the Heart Transmits (2014)
- Closing In (2015)
- The Way Home (2015)
- You Guys! Let's Just Talk About Nail Varnish! (2015)
- A Crack Where the Light Gets In (2015)
- Referendum (2016)
- The Surrender of Time (2016)
- Hands Music (2016)
- Towards a Better Question (2017)
- PS, You Are Brilliant (2017)
- Small Is Beautiful (2017)
=Collaborations=
- Conversations (2003) with Jez Carr
- For the Love of Open Spaces (2003) with Theo Travis
- It's Not Going to Happen (2003) with Theo Travis
- Calamateur v Steve Lawson (2007) with Calamateur
- Live in Nebraska (2008) with Lobelia
- Numbers (2008) as Lawson/Dodds/Wood (with Roy Dodds & Patrick Wood)
- Slow Food (2010) with Trip Wamsley
- Infralab (2010) with Trip Wamsley
- Live So Far (2010) with Lobelia (wife)
- Hidden Windows (2012) with Neil Alexander
- Invenzioni (2012) with Mike Outram
- Nothing Can Prepare (2012) with Andy Williamson
- The Fingerpainting Sessions (2013) with Daniel Berkman
- Diversion (2014) with Jon Thorne
- Marinate (2014) with Julie Slick
- Tangents (2014) with Murphy McCaleb
- Explore (2015) with Ruth Goller
- Live at the Tower of Song as Lawson/Edwards/Godfrey with Andy Edwards & Jen Godfrey
- Winter Song (2015) as Lawson/Edwards/Corbett with Andy Edwards & Bryan Corbet
- Ley Lines (2015) as Phi Yaan-Zek, Steve Lawson & Andy Edwards
- Language Is a Music (2016) as Steve Lawson & Michael Manring
- The Quiet After the Drums (2016) as Phi Yaan-Zek & Steve Lawson
- Ley Lines II (2017) as Phi Yaan-Zek, Steve Lawson & Andy Edwards
- Over Time (2017) as Steve Lawson & Andy Edwards
- Intersect (2917) as Steve Lawson & Pete Fraser
- Illuminated Loops (2017) as Steve Lawson & Poppy Porter
References
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External links
- [http://www.stevelawson.net/ Official site]
- [http://www.fretlessbass.com/LawsonSteveInterview-01.html Interview on FretlessBass.com]
- [http://www.bassguitarmagazine.com/uncategorized/steve-lawson-even-steven/ Bass Guitar]
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Category:British jazz bass guitarists
Category:English male guitarists
Category:British male bass guitarists
Category:21st-century English bass guitarists