Gillian Welch & David Rawlings live at
The London Palladium:
mesmerising ballads and barnburners
It's their first headline UK tour since 2011
Alastair says : "There is a knee solo, some hillbilly dancing and a roar from the crowd
There is a comic moment, somewhere towards the middle of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ second set, where Rawlings pauses to strap on a harmonica. To do this, he has to remove his cowboy hat, a gesture that provokes a roar from the audience, and a smattering of wolf whistles. Welch turns to face her partner. “That’s how little they expect from us,” she says, deadpan.
They launch into “Six White Horses” from Welch’s 2011 album The Harrow and the Harvest. It’s a beautiful song, a poetic rendering of impending sorrow, delivered with minimal decoration. Rawlings plucks the tune on a banjo. Welch slaps out the rhythm on her thighs, underscoring it with the stomping of her boot heel. There is a knee solo, some hillbilly dancing and a roar from the crowd. As they do at the end of every song, Welch and Rawlings freeze, and smile to each other as if freshly amazed. Welch permits herself a joke, declaring the grand Palladium stage to be “a way above average” for clogging. "
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