It had been nearly six years to the day since I had seen Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the initial The Harrow & the Harvest tour, so I was not about to miss this short mini-tour to celebrate the album’s release […]
Dave Rawlings is a man rife with contradiction. Although his partnership with long-time collaborator Gillian Welch has spawned six albums in 20 years, his name makes the cover of only one of them. Most of the time, he abstains from […]
This week, I’m featuring the photos of C. Elliott from Tucson, Arizona. While she and I have chatted about photography for quite some time, I was unaware till recently that we lived in Cincinnati during the same time, she in high school […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
This week, our featured broadcaster is from the central valley of California — Sacramento, to be exact. Like other DJs I’ve featured recently, Paul Hefti and I have never met, but after reading about his taste in music and influences, I’m […]
This was the last night on tour in Australia for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, the culmination of 4,500 road miles and 14 shows. The caravan began in Perth as An Evening with Gillian Welch, rolling across the Nullabor Desert to Adelaide, on […]
Dave Rawlings performing at Bangalow A&I Hall, NSW, Australia on February 13, 2016.
On, this, their first tour of Australia, the Dave Rawlings Machine was scheduled to play the four capital cities on the eastern mainland … and Bangalow, New South Wales. I guess it was something of a busman’s holiday. Bangalow (population 2,000) lies in the lush, […]
The previous Australian tour of Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings is the stuff of legend. Folks who caught one of those shows back in 2004 recall it with the kind of dewy-eyed reverence usually reserved for the likes of Springsteen or the […]
