Willie Watson has always operated on the periphery. Even in the making of his own story. First, he was harmonizing on early versions of “Wagon Wheel” in high school, as a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. After he left […]
Willie Watson has always operated on the periphery. Even in the making of his own story. First, he was harmonizing on early versions of “Wagon Wheel” in high school, as a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. After he left […]
If you thought all the significant releases of the year were already out, think again: 2017 is shaping up as a banner year for roots Channel and Americana music. Here are ten more, some already on everyone’s radar, and some […]
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 […]
I would not have known the Brooklyn Folk Festival existed were it not for the publicist. I might have known if I lived in New York, but I do not. I am grateful to that publicist because I was introduced […]
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 […]
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, […]
Great night with the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Cat’s Cradle that is in the Chapel Hill area but is in Carrboro, NC.
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