John marmaduke dawson biography

American musician

Musical artist

John Collins Dawson IV (June 16, 1945 – July 21, 2009), nicknamed "Marmaduke", was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. He sang lead vocals on most of the band's songs.

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Musical career

Dawson was born in Chicago. His family moved to California in 1952. The son of a Los Altos Hills, California, filmmaker, he took guitar lessons from a teacher and friend from the Peninsula School in Menlo Park, California.

For high school he attended the Millbrook School near Millbrook, New York.

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While at Millbrook, he took courses in music theory and history and sang in the glee club.

Dawson's musical career began in the mid-1960s folk music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, he met fellow guitarist David Nelson, and was part of the rotating lineup of Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a jug band th