Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith and company hit the road earlier this week for a tour in support of their latest LP
Dawes appeared on CBS Mornings’ latest Saturday Sessions to showcase a pair of songs from their recent album Oh Brother, as well as perform their fundraising track for the California wildfires.
The Los Angeles-based group delivered “Still Strangers Sometimes” and “Front Row Seat” from 2024’s Oh Brother as well as “Time Spent in Los Angeles,” a decade-old track that Dawes revisited in the aftermath of the wildfires.
It’s been an eventful 2025 for the band’s brotherly duo of Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, whose properties were both impacted by the Altadena wildfires earlier this year. Soon after, Dawes appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform an emotion rendition of “Time Spent in Los Angeles.”
“We were asked to perform on Jimmy Kimmel within a week of both of our properties burning in Altadena,” Taylor Goldsmith said in a statement after re-releasing the new version of the track to raise funds for wildfire relief efforts.
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“Griffin lost his house and I lost our studio. We decided to play a ballad version of ‘Time Spent in Los Angeles.’ The song means all sorts of different things to us now. After that live performance it became clear we would want a proper studio recording of the version for posterity (and to maybe even raise a little more money for MusiCares)… I feel like this is the version of this song that we’re gonna be playing for a long time to come.”
Dawes also took part in an all-star rendition of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” at the Grammys, later releasing a studio rendition for wildfire relief again. The band, whose U.S. tour kicked off earlier this week, also teamed up with Brad Paisley for the new song “Raining Inside.”
