The 2025 Grammy Awards kicked off with a powerful performance of Randy Newman's 'I Love L.A.', reimagined as a tribute to the resilience of Los Angeles in the wake of devastating wildfires. Dawes, joined by a star-studded lineup including Brittany Howard, Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, John Legend, and Brad Paisley, delivered a moving rendition that captured the spirit of the city's recovery.
Dawes , with Brittany Howard , Sheryl Crow , St. Vincent , John Legend , and Brad Paisley , opened the 2025 Grammys with ' I Love L.A. ' about the impact on the Pacific Palisades, where Paisley once owned a home. In one of his replies, Goldsmith told Paisley that the fire was now encroaching on in the Eaton fire, sounded a more hopeful note, all things considered, in a subsequent text to Paisley.
He told the country singer that he’d just had “the coolest conversation ever” about putting together an “all-star band” for the Grammys. “And then it snowballed,” Paisley says. The performance featured a unique blend of musical talent, with Dawes, the duo of singer-guitarist Taylor and his brother, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, representing Americana rock. West Virginia guitarist Paisley was country; John Legend, playing piano, was R&B; and so on. Ultimately,(guitar) all came aboard. As Paisley quips, “No fortune teller would have ever said to me, ‘I see you onstage with Brittany Howard and St. Vincent playing a Randy Newman song.’ The choice of the song and assembling the unlikely musical crew had its origins in Dawes’ mid-January performance on , which helped raise money for the Recording Academy’s aid for musicians affected by the fires. (Taylor Goldsmith’s house remains but he lost his home studio and gear; Griffin’s was destroyed entirely.) A link to that Driving through the city in the first few days of the fires, Grammys executive producer Ben Winston happened to play Newman’s 1983 song, an ode to his hometown and his complex feelings toward it. “I played it and I got really emotional listening to it as I drove from downtown, leaving my kids where we’ve been evacuated, back to my house,” Winston says. “I played it three times in a row.” In talking with his friend Brandi Carlile, Winston shared his idea to have the song performed on the Grammys and asked her advice on who to enlist. “Brandi said, ‘You should consider Dawes for this because they could be really cool,'” says Winston, who had seen Dawes’ performance on Taylor Goldsmith says he was taken aback when the Grammys called with the opportunity. “We’ve never been nominated or acknowledged,” he says. “I’m not blaming the guys at the top. We’ve just never been part of that world. We’ve put out nine records, but it’s fair to say we’re by no means a ‘buzz band.’ But we have our fan base and it’s an awesome existence.” To Goldsmith’s additional surprise, Winston said the Grammy producers would help put together a band behind them. “They said, ‘Who do you want?’” Goldsmith says. “‘Throw out anybody. We’re just going to go for it,’ and I was like, ‘Sure!’ We felt like kids in the candy store getting to run up whatever bill we wanted.” That led first to Legend, then to Clark, and then Howard. Paisley, in turn, directly asked his friend Crow, who immediately signed on
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