Songwriter/musician Mike Lawson has recorded and/or performed shows with a diverse group of musicians, from members of Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna, The Tubes, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Jerry Garcia Band to Vassar Clements, Phil Madeira, Pete Sears, Will Kimbrough, Phil Keaggy, Dianne Davidson, even the eclectic Eugene Chadbourne. His Fred Bogert-produced 1998 album, Mike Lawson & Friends V...
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Songwriter/musician Mike Lawson has recorded and/or performed shows with a diverse group of musicians, from members of Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna, The Tubes, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Jerry Garcia Band to Vassar Clements, Phil Madeira, Pete Sears, Will Kimbrough, Phil Keaggy, Dianne Davidson, even the eclectic Eugene Chadbourne. His Fred Bogert-produced 1998 album, Mike Lawson & Friends Vol 1. - Ticket to Fly (Sumertone Records) featured mentor Merl Saunders, Jorma Kaukonen, Bob Welch, Joe Louis Walker, Dennis Robbins and others.

In 2019, he released two commemorative 20th anniversary singles of his recordings of the Beatles' “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road? feat. Vince Welnick; and “Mystery Train” feat. Vassar Clements on fiddle, recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio B. His writing demos from previous decades were released on Mike Lawson & Friends Vol 2. - Some Songs in the Key of Poe,” and Vol 3. - Outtakes and Oddities, both released in 2019.

Mike released eight "digital 45s" in 2020, from the album, "Evidence Concerning Apparitions." Over 30 musicians contributed from around the world. His next album "More Wonders of the Visible World" released January 1, '21. His "3200 W 22nd Court" released Dec 17, 2021. The first single "Once You Leave Home (You Can Never Return) released March 15, 2021. On May 25, the video single for “Benedict Rides” released. In Oct 2022, he released the 12 song album "Mike Lawson and Friends Lay It All Down." In Oct 2023, he released 10-song album "Ever Trust a Prankster?" His '24 release, "Pearls Before Swine' is in production now.

Lawson served 10 years on the board of governors for San Francisco's chapter of The Recording Academy, served as a national trustee, plus on the Grammy Awards and Nominations Committee, and Finance Committee. He served on the board of directors for the TEC Foundation/TEC Awards until it folded into the NAMM Foundation.

Mike Lawson is also a journalist, author and publisher of music trade technology education publications, producing over 200 titles for MixBooks, artistpro, Thomson Learning, Thomas Nelson, Hal Leonard, and Alfred Music. Acquisitions include works by Quincy Jones, Ken Scott, Bobby Owsinski, and Roger Nichols. He wrote “Teach Yourself GarageBand” & compiled/edited “The Roger Nichols Recording Method.” He is the owner of the artistpro.com family of magazines, and still performs around 30 shows a year.

Since 2011, he has served as executive director of 501c3 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME). Mike has hired over 135 airgigs sessions since April 2019.
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