Zach Dawes

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Zachary Edwin Dawes (born July 2, 1985) is an American musician, producer, engineer, and technician, best known as the bassist for the bands Mini Mansions and The Last Shadow Puppets. He has also worked extensively with Brian Wilson, Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten, among other musicians and songwriters.{{cite web|url=http://www.insideshock.com/#!Mini-Mansions-interview/c1884/97ED7F4F-7FDA-4E33-B0BC-9459C18816C3|title=Mini Mansions Interview|work=Inside Shock Magazine|date=August 13, 2015}} He composes and music supervises for many film and television shows including The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Big Door Prize, and worked with frequent collaborator Este Haim on the hit Netflix show Nobody Wants This. His producing work with Lana Del Rey on Norman Fucking Rockwell and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard earned him two Grammy nominations for Album of the Year.

Early life

Dawes grew up in Encino, California. He majored in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.{{Cite web|title=Contact-Zachary Dawes|url=http://zacharydawes.com/label|website=Zacharydawes.com|access-date=2021-06-22|language=en-US}}

As a child, Dawes learned to play the piano, but switched to bass when he discovered that the band he was starting needed a bass player.

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Career

Dawes spent many years assisting, engineering, and playing bass for American record producer T Bone Burnett. He played bass on albums and soundtracks for which Burnett was producer, composer or contributing artist, including The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, Inside Llewyn Davis (soundtrack), A Place at the Table, True Detective, season 1 of Nashville (2012 TV series), Lisa Marie Presley's album Storm & Grace, the album Put Your Needle Down by the band The Secret Sisters, and Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, a reworking of unfinished songs by Bob Dylan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zachary-dawes-mn0002579204|title=Zachary Dawes Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/zach-dawes-mn0003313443|title=Zach Dawes Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More|website=AllMusic}}

He has toured extensively with his band Mini Mansions, Sparks, The Last Shadow Puppets, and Courtney Barnett.

Most recently he was a producer on Lana Del Rey's Take Me Home Country Roads (2023), Oh Henry (2025), and Bluebird (2025).

He has co-written and produced several songs with Sharon Van Etten for film and television projects.

Zach composed the music for all 3 seasons of Amazon's hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty. The Apple Original Stick starring Owen Wilson (2025), the first season of Netflix's Nobody Wants This (2024), Netflix's historical drama A Small Light (2023), Apple's The Big Door Prize seasons 1 and 2 (2023), Grease Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023), Abbi Jacobson's A League of Their Own (2022), Angelyne (2022), HBO's Generation (2021) and many more.

In 2021, Dawes composed the music for the Netflix film There's Someone Inside Your House.

In 2019, Dawes was the music supervisor and contributed to the soundtrack for the South by Southwest award-winning film, Peanut Butter Falcon.{{Cite web|last=Palmer|first=Jason|title=The Peanut Butter Falcon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack review|url=https://entertainment-focus.com/2019/10/27/the-peanut-butter-falcon-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-review/|website=Entertainment-focus.com|date=October 26, 2019 |access-date=2021-04-12|language=en-US}}

Personal life

Dawes married partner Molly Grassini on September 25, 2022. The wedding was attended by members of Arctic Monkeys, Warpaint, and Dawes' band Mini Mansions, among others.{{Cite web|last=Rhian|first=Daly|title=Watch Alex Turner serenade a couple during wedding first dance|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-alex-turner-serenade-couple-during-wedding-first-dance-3317172|website=NME|date=September 26, 2022|access-date=September 24, 2023|language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine|last=Blistein|first=Jon|title=Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner Moonlights as Wedding Singer for Friends' First Dance|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/arctic-monkeys-alex-turner-wedding-singer-dion-only-you-know-1234599934/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=September 26, 2022|access-date=September 24, 2023|language=en-US}}

Discography

;Appearances on albums, television shows, and films:

2009 - Mini Mansions – Mini Mansions EP
2011 - Mini Mansions – Mini Mansions
2012 - Nashville – The Music of Nashville: Season 1, Vol 1.
2012 - Lisa Marie Presley – Storm & Grace
2013 - Nashville – The Music of Nashville: Season 1, Vol. 2.
2013 - A Place at the Table – "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
2013 - Various Artists – The Music of Grand Theft Auto V
2014 - The Secret Sisters – Put Your Needle Down
2014 - Kimbra – The Golden Echo
2014 - The New Basement Tapes – Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes
2015 - Brian Wilson – No Pier Pressure
2015 - Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders
2016 - The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come to Expect
2016 - Unloved – Guilty of Love
2016 - Mini Mansions – Flashbacks: A Collection of B-Sides From the Great Pretenders
2016 - The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis
2017 - Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness
2017 - Imelda May – Life Love Flesh Blood
2018 - Kimbra – Primal Heart
2018 - Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2018 - Miles Kane – Coup de Grace
2018 - Mini Mansions – Works Every Time EP
2019 - Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
2019 - The Peanut Butter Falcon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019 - Mini Mansions – Guy Walks Into A Bar...
2019 - Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
2021 - Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters
2021 - There's Someone Inside Your House (Netflix)
2021 - Generation (HBO)
2022 - Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong
2022 - Angelyne (Peacock)
2022 - Abbi Jacobson's A League of Their Own (Amazon)
2023 - Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
2023 - Sir Chloe - I Am the Dog
2023 - The Big Door Prize (Apple) Seasons 1 and 2
2023 - Grease Rise of the Pink Ladies (Paramount+)
2023 - A Small Light (Netflix)
2024 - Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
2025 - Stick starring Owen Wilson (Apple)

References

Category:1985 births

Category:Living people

Category:American rock bass guitarists

Category:American male bass guitarists

Category:21st-century American bass guitarists

Category:21st-century American male musicians

Category:The Last Shadow Puppets members

Category:University of California, Santa Cruz alumni