Baltimore Unsigned Artist of the Month: Jason Dove
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track "Big Red Truck"
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Jason Dove performs with:
- Steve Hefter,
- Michael Ward,
- Bryson Dudley and
- Steve Colmus
© Jim Lucio
Jason Dove is not your average rock and roller. You’ll never see him sporting big feathered hair or prancing across the stages of Baltimore clubs like the Ottobar and the Talking Head in pants two sizes too small.
You’re more likely to find him stepping out for a night on the town in an almost-but-not-quite-cheesy bright orange grizzly bear sweatshirt and a huge grin on his face. This Savannah,GA flea market find is a fitting image for the man whom Wham City’s Ed Schrader recently compared to cartoon character Yogi Bear, calling him a “cuddly, bedazzled wall of rock.”
With an obsession for retro arcade games, Dove’s only tattoo is an Atari symbol. But that doesn’t mean he plunks out electronica on his laptop or fiddles with racks of dials and blinking lights in some kind of alienated dystopian artistic statement. Anything but. Jason Dove’s music is a straight-ahead return to classic rock & roll song-craft and musicality, an uplifting unpretentious rock for a new era of climate change and economic downshift – a revival of music as it’s meant to be.
