{"id":44139,"date":"2025-08-18T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/goose-dawes-champion-mental-health-at-park-city-song-summit-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:54:36","slug":"goose-dawes-champion-mental-health-at-park-city-song-summit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/goose-dawes-champion-mental-health-at-park-city-song-summit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose, Dawes Champion Mental Health at Park City Song Summit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tFresh off an appearance on The Tonight Show<\/em> with Jimmy Fallon<\/em> last week and the surprise drop of their fifth studio album, Chain Yer Dragon<\/em>, jam-band juggernaut Goose<\/a> headlined the Park City Song Summit<\/a> in Utah this past weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tEstablished in 2019 as a conduit to create and cultivate dialogue about the state of mental\/physical health and wellness in the music industry, the PCSS has become a beacon of not only hope and compassion, but one of positive, tangible change.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a mindset, an energy, and a spirit that you can take away from here,\u201d says Ben Anderson, PCSS founder. \u201cThat\u2019s really hard to get in your average run-of-the-mill event. If somebody can leave here and apply that, and live even 10-percent happier? Then, that\u2019s a success for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt really all boils down to communication,\u201d Goose lead singer Rick Mitarotonda tells Rolling Stone <\/em>when asked about honing in on the health of a rock band. \u201cWhen things are getting weird, the vibe\u2019s off, and people are going through stuff, the ability to communicate with each other, understand each other, it means everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with Goose, the fifth installment of PCSS included appearances by Dawes<\/a>, Greensky Bluegrass, Holly Bowling, Marcus King, Nicki Bluhm, Eric Krasno, Jennifer Hartswick, Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, Anders Osborne, Adam MacDougall, Cimafunk, and LP Giobbi.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs I get older, I have to think about how to navigate the [music] industry in a healthy way, physically and mentally,\u201d says Krasno, the renowned guitarist who made his fourth trip to PCSS. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have a place and a festival that nurtures that side of things. For many years, there wasn\u2019t a lot of attention given to how to be a musician or to be in the business, but also maintain a healthy life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe weekend kicked off Thursday evening with a dinner at the Summit Supper Club hosted by celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern. Teaming up with Marcus King, Zimmern tailored the menu to dishes from King\u2019s native South Carolina (think oysters, barbecue, crab cakes). The men have become friends in recent years, bonding through a love of music.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s really fun and challenging, for us as food people, is to pay homage to a human being, their music, and the piece of land that they\u2019re from,\u201d Zimmern says. \u201cAnd to translate that into food, and hope that you experience that at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKing serenaded the guests, who, following the meal, walked in unison with the Trombone Shorty Foundation Alumni Band up Main Street to the Marquis, where King hit the stage alongside Krasno and Betts. For Betts, the ethos of the PCSS is something he deeply aligns with: He\u2019s been proudly sober for several years.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s really important for people to know that they\u2019re not alone,\u201d Betts says. \u201cSo many people struggle with mental health in one form or another \u2014 anxiety, depression, addiction. Now, at least, they have the guidelines, they have the tools if they want them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBetts made a handful of appearances at PCSS, most notably Friday evening with his former bandmates Dawes. The indie-rockers rolled through a wide-swath of their catalog (\u201cAll Your Favorite Bands,\u201d \u201cComes in Waves\u201d), with Betts and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith duetting on the Allman Brothers\u2019 \u201cRamblin\u2019 Man.\u201d Betts roared up and down the fretboard of his goldtop Gibson Les Paul, the same guitar used by his late father, Dickey Betts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPCSS also offers numerous \u201cSummit Labs,\u201d informative, live audience conversations about ongoing subjects within the musical realms. One of the most-anticipated of the weekend was the \u201cAmerican Rock n\u2019 Roll Band in 2025,\u201d featuring Krasno, Dawes\u2019 Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, as well as Goose\u2019s Mitarotonda and Peter Anspach.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel like all of my heroes, the people I look up to, built their own world and found their own path,\u201d Mitarotonda says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe American rock band has a lane in 2025, but that lane has only gotten smaller,\u201d says Taylor Goldsmith, \u201cat least in this universe of guitar solos, lyrics, upright pianos, that sort of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t have any idea how to start a band today. I\u2019m grateful that we have what we have,\u201d Griffin Goldsmith says. \u201cI\u2019m grateful that our fans are already with us, because I\u2019m not sure that methodology of \u2018one show at a time, pound the pavement, one fan at a time\u2019 is even feasible unless you have a patron \u2014 it\u2019s just too expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the Goldsmith brothers, that perspective into their careers also permeates their personal lives. This past January, Griffin lost his home and Taylor had his studio destroyed in the apocalyptic Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor a long time, we were like, \u2018How do we make the show bigger? How do we get the streams up?\u2019 or whatever the hell that means,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cBut, then you have kids, and you just want to be able to bring them to a festival and have them see their dad onstage, and be proud in some way. And as long as they\u2019re taken care of, that\u2019s really all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDawes tore through a set on the City Park Stage with Adam MacDougall on keyboards. For MacDougall, the underlying theme of the PCSS strikes close to his heart. A friend of late guitarist Neal Casal (both were longtime bandmates in Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Circles Around the Sun), MacDougall knows first-hand what it means to lose a loved one in the midst of a mental health crisis.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith Neal, there wasn\u2019t a place to go, that understood the specifics of how that [musical] life can get you down,\u201d MacDougall says.<\/p>\n

\n\tCasal<\/a> took his own life in August 2019. Just two months earlier, jam-grass great Jeff Austin<\/a> also suffered the same fate. The two beloved musicians became a catalyst for new avenues of dialogue and actual change occurring in how mental health is dealt with in the music industry.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn the aftermath, much-needed organizations like Backline emerged, with the PCSS also continuing to grow and share its mission.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s amazing that there\u2019s a way that makes it okay for people to feel they can say they\u2019re not doing well,\u201d MacDougall says of the PCSS. \u201cAnd having an actual place that\u2019s basically saying, \u2018We\u2019re here, we understand that aspect of it\u2019? It\u2019s a huge difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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