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Devin Dawson Creative Loafing Tampa’s Newcomers Guide 2018 (a special issue on stands, separate from the one you’re holding) describes Tampa’s Dallas Bull as a place where burgeoning talents from Nashville’s big ol’ country music machine can cut their teeth. Devin Dawson is one such example. The California native came up playing metal in a band called Shadow of the Colossus and began getting attention for his covers of Taylor Swift, but now he is enjoying his status as one of a few pop-country dark horses who may be headlining larger rooms like the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in just a few years. (Dallas Bull, Tampa) INFO

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...