Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with Old Crow Medicine Show - The Weight : St Lukes Chapel London UK

" THE WEIGHT"

Old Crow Medicine Show join Gillian and David Rawlings for an encore at St Lukes in London. 

This was broadcast on BBC4

ALBUM RE-POST of THE WEEK! Robyn Hitchcock "Spooked” 2004 | Twilightzone

Robyn Hitchcock "Spooked" 2004

Robyn Hitchcock enlisted the help of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for Spooked-- his first full-length collaboration (not counting, of course, The Soft Boys and The Egyptians)-- and, consequently, it's the most "American" album he's ever made. The record is a departure from Hitchcock's usual eccentric left-of-the-dial pop, a left turn almost as unique as the story behind the album's creation: One of Hithcock's friends sent him a photo of the coronation of a new Miss Ohio named Robyn Hitchcock; the coincidence reminded the English singer of a striking live performance of Gillian Welch's "Miss Ohio"... - Pitchfork

Sometime after the release of 2003's sparse and slightly chilly Luxor, Robyn Hitchcock attended his first Gillian Welch show. Impressed by the duo's rootsy adherence to the organic -- two guitars, two voices -- he approached the longtime fans -- Hitchcock unknowingly signed David Rawlings' guitar at a Boston in-store in 1989 -- and exchanged digits. The unlikely partnership came to fruition at Nashville's Woodland Studios a few months later, and in just six days the lovely, intimate, and typically eccentric Spooked was born. Produced by Rawlings and culled from hours of off-the-cuff originals, Dylan songs, and general weirdness, Spooked harks back to his mercurial I Often Dream of Trains period. References to fungus and food abound, but wrapped in the wooly blankets of Rawlings' signature picking and Welch's winsome harmonies, they take on a fireplace warmth that renders them amiably nostalgic rather than blatantly surreal. On the dew-soaked opener, "Television," Rawlings lays down a beautiful descending lead that wouldn't have sounded out of place on the duo's debut, and its juxtaposition with Hitchcock's "bing a bon a bing bong" vocal entrance is jarring, but when the three of them come together mid-song to harmonize, the results are quietly majestic. Much of the record revisits -- musically at least -- Hitchcock's colorful past. "Everybody Needs Love," with its breathy urgency and electric sitar, sounds like something off of Element of Light, and the lurching "Creeped Out" -- featuring Welch on drums -- could have been the B-side to 1985's "Brenda's Iron Sledge." This is Hitchcock's most rewarding and creative endeavor since 1993's Egyptian-led Respect, and the fact that Rawlings and Welch are there as eager tools to flesh out his English netherworld makes the fellowship feel even more collaborative. It's a testament to both camps' willingness to try anything -- hearing Welch and Rawlings repeating "crackle, crackle, pop" beneath Hitchcock's spoken word sales pitch to extraterrestrials looking to vacation on Earth is a pretty good example -- that ultimately succeeds in making Spooked the left-field gem that it is. - Review by James Christopher Monger

tracklist:

01 Television 

02 If You Know Time 

03 Everybody Needs Love 

04 English Girl 

05 Demons & Fiends 

06 Creeped Out 

07 Sometimes A Blonde 

08 We're Gonna Live In The Trees 

09 Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door 

10 Full Moon In My Soul 

11 Welcome To Earth 

12 Flanagan's Song

Television . . . . . Robyn Hitchcock

Gillian Welch various from O My Soul

Alice over at O My Soul posted these three yesterday and I don’t blame her . . . .some faves here

The First Gillian Welch album I bought . . . . . here from O My Soul

Gillian Welch | Revelator

Song of The Day :: GILLIAN WELCH - TENNESSEE

Tennessee / Gillian Welch

Songs of The Day :: GILLIAN WELCH | Look At Miss Ohio & My Morphine (Live)

 GILLIAN WELCH

Gillian Welch, “Look At Miss Ohio”

Gillian Welch, “My Morphine,” live at Strawberry Festival, CA (with David Rawlings)

thanks for the reminder from O My Soul . . . . . 

GILLIAN RAWLINGS & DAVID RAWLINGS - THE SOUNDBOARD ARCHIVES - Big O

     There's a wonderful compilation of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings soundboards over at Big O this morning and (again?! >>sigh<<) if you can stand the comments section and the troll plethora of neanderthal Americans hurling half baked and sophomoronic insults and sexist racist abuse at each other and anyone who stops by often enough it is really worth downloading This is truly a peach. Disc 1-3 of a six disc collection so there is more to come and this one has 42 tracks! Well worth having and the finest quality

TheMysticMuse over at Dime noted:

For some time now, I have been making “The Soundboard Archive” compilations. My live-music collection had become so massive that I thought it pointless to keep “multiple-to-the-nth-degree” versions of the same songs, especially for “non-jam” bands: thus the genesis of this project of mine.

This has been my methodology:

1. Choose a trade-friendly artist & venue (= “not on Dime’s NAB or NAV lists”) & collate all of the tracks from my “SBD” flac/shn files for said artist.

2. Listen to each track and choose what sounds to my ears to be the “best” version.

3. As needed, rename each chosen track.

4. Compile “the winners” into a “The Soundboard Archive” collection – after ensuring that NO included tracks have been officially released. (Each text file contains information about those shows/songs which had been officially released at the time of my compilation.)

ENJOY! Support the artist and buy the officially-released items!

Disc 1
5/18/1996 - Prism Coffeehouse - Charlottesville, VA
DATSBD > ? CDR > WAV > Audition 1.5 > Downsample/Dither > 16/44 > SHNTool [fixed SBEs] > FLAC
Track 01. Silver Dagger 3:54

6/20/1996 - Freight & Salvage - Berkeley, CA
SBD > ? > CDRx > dbPowerAmp > WAV > FLAC
Track 02. Billy 6:59
Track 03. Dark As A Dungeon 5:32
Track 04. I’ve Been Down Before 4:17
Track 05. Riverboat Song 4:01

6/25/1996 - Luna Park - West Hollywood, CA
Soundboard > Sony TCD-D3
Track 06. Diamond Joe 3:55

8/21/1996 - Acoustic Coffee House - Nederland, CO
SBD > DAT > ACH DAT/M > Tascam DA-20 MKII > MacMini [Audacity] > 1648wav > Audacity > xACT [FLAC/TAG]
Track 07. One More Dollar 5:05
Track 08. Pass You By 4:37
Track 09. I’ll Go On Downtown 6:03
Track 10. Wabash Cannonball 3:32
Track 11. Pretty Polly 3:46
Track 12. If I Had A Hammer 4:08
Track 13. I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine 4:54
Track 14. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues 3:54
Track 15. Sing To The River 3:36
69 mins

Disc 2
4/19/1997 - Gunnerz - Iowa City, IA
SBD > ? > CDRx > WAV > FLAC
Track 16. Traveling On The Stormy Deep 4:38
Track 17. Dry Town 4:25

9/26/1997 - Acoustic Stage - Hickory, NC
SBD recording
Track 18. Beautiful Garden 3:12
Track 19. East Virginia Blues 4:27
Track 20. The Flood Of ‘57 3:00
Track 21. Jesus On The Mainline 4:15

9/27/1997 - Catawba Valley Arts & Science Center - Hickory, NC
SBD recording
Track 22. Albuquerque 4:51
Track 23. Ben Dewberry’s Final Run 5:03
Track 24. Only One And Only 5:51
Track 25. Paper Wings 4:48
Track 26. Saginaw Way 2:17
Track 27. Pancho And Lefty 7:12
54 mins

Disc 3
5/21/1998 - Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
DSBD > CDR > CDwave > Flac
Track 28. Honey Now 2:17
Track 29. Good ‘Til Now 4:10
Track 30. Old Copper Kettle 5:25
Track 31. Whiskey Girl 4:26
Track 32. Mom And Dad’s Waltz 3:33

1/31/1999 - Moments - Bremen, Germany
SBD > ? > CDR > COOLEDITPRO > WAV > SHN
Track 33. Orphan Girl 4:10
Track 34. Winter’s Come And Gone 2:54
Track 35. Rock Of Ages 3:27
Track 36. Barroom Girls 5:14
Track 37. Wichita 3:25
Track 38. Annabelle 5:04
Track 39. My Morphine 6:34
Track 40. Red Clay Halo 3:28
Track 41. One Morning 3:22
Track 42. I’m Not Afraid To Die 4:01
62 mins

SECOND Album of another 40 songs posted today 

Disc 4
1/31/1999 - Moments - Bremen, Germany (cont’d)
SBD > ? > CDR > COOLEDITPRO > WAV > SHN
Track 43. Tear My Stillhouse Down 4:06
Track 44. Snowin’ On Raton 5:38
Track 45. By The Mark 3:32
Track 46. Acony Bell 3:48
Track 47. Caleb Meyer 3:42
Track 48. Dusty Boxcar Wall 4:35
Track 49. Long Black Veil 5:29

6/20/1999 - Lime Kiln - Lexington, VA
DAT SBD > CDR > CD WAVE > FLAC
Track 50. Company Grave Blues 4:22
Track 51. Stood Up At The Altar 4:01
Track 52. One Of These Days 5:50
Track 53. The Devil Had A Hold Of Me 4:27
Track 54. Apalachicola 3:24
Track 55. Miner’s Refrain 5:02
Track 56. Green Pastures 3:37
62 mins

Disc 5
6/26/2002 - The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA
Stereo SBD Dat master > Panasonic SV-3700 [digital output] > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF > Toast Titanium > CD. CD extraction with Toast Titanium. FLAC files created with xACT [level 8, sector boundaries verified]
Track 57. Everything Is Free 5:47
Track 58. Fair And Tender Rose 4:21
Track 59. On The Way Back To The Old Home 3:12
Track 60. Tell Me What You Think About 4:49
Track 61. True Life Blues 6:28
Track 62. Tennessee Stud 6:16
Track 63. Revelator 8:03
Track 64. I’ll Fly Away 3:37
Track 65. I Want To Sing That Rock ‘n’ Roll 3:08
Track 66. My Dear Someone 3:19
Track 67. My First Lover 4:18
54 mins

Disc 6
12/4/2002 - Fiddlers Nightclub - Bristol, UK
SBD > ? > TRADE > FLAC
Track 68. Papa Writes To Johnny 4:41
Track 69. Dance Little Lulu 3:16
Track 70. County Fair 3:03
Track 71. Strange Isabella 4:26
Track 72. Go Away Picasso 5:15

5/19/2005 - Belcourt Theater - Nashville, TN
Soundboard > Digigram Vx-Pocket > Sony Vaio > 24bit/48k WAV
Track 73. Elvis Presley Blues 4:53
Track 74. One Little Song 3:43
Track 75. Look At Miss Ohio 4:35
Track 76. Key To The Kingdom 5:32
Track 77. No One Knows My Name 3:31
Track 78. Black Star 4:59

8/12/07 - Hoyt Sherman Auditorium - Des Moines, IA
SBD > Sony M1 DAT > Tascam DA20mkII > M-Audio Transit > SoundForge 8.0
Track 79. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor 4:10
Track 80. The Way It Will Be 6:33
Track 81. Big Rock Candy Mountain 3:45
Track 82. Jackson 3:56
67 mins

Gillian Welch web here . . .

Aquarium Drunkard has posted James Adams latest monthly Dylan playlist. Check it out

Pretty Good Stuff: Dylan historian James Adams’ hour-long, monthly, program diving deep into the depths of all things Dwarf Music. Listen to the show below, and to explore further, support our Patreon for the individual tracks and more. Episode 008: Remembering the late Bucky Baxter (1955-2020)

Bob Dylan - James Adams' Pretty Good Stuff Episode 8 - Aquarium Drunkard

And also . . . . . . . 

this from Gillian Welch 

The first of three collections that gather together a whopping 48 songs recorded in late 2002, in between Time (The Revelator)Soul Journey. An astounding cache of previously unheard Welch/Rawlings music, made even more astounding by the fact that these four-dozen tunes were laid down in the space of just a few days.

Gillian Welch -The Lost Songs Vol 1 - Aquarium Drunkard

GILLIAN WELCH

& David Rawlings

COVERS

'Hello In There'

John Prine

Aquarium Drunkard reminds us there is a great album of cover songs from Gillian Welch and her partner David Rawlings and includes a version of John Prine's 'Hello In There' and others such as Libba Cotton ('Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie') 

Their twilcox says:

This year has been filled with surprises — most of them not particularly great. But a sneak attack Gillian Welch & David Rawlings covers album? That’s the definition of a nice surprise. Recorded live to tape this spring, All The Good Times is warm and loose, as the duo tackles tunes by Elizabeth Cotten, Bob Dylan, Norman Blake and a handful of trad-folk numbers …

Buy it here . . . . .

 All The Good Times (Ten Acoustic Covers)

SOUND OF THE DAY

Lucky Mr Smith . . . . . . . . . 

GILLIAN WELCH

455 Rocket

Turn it up!

A lovely set from Gillian Welch and husband David Rawlings from Big O the other day I haven't stopped listening to this for the past few hours. Whilst some are critical it seems of the duo's lack of original material and that one set sounds much like another, I still never tire of listening to them

GILLIAN WELCH

& David Rawlings

Gillian Welch - Des Moines, IOWA 2007

As Big O notes:

Live at the Hoyt Sherman Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa; August 12, 2007. Fairly to very good soundboard. 

At the 2019 Academy Awards, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings performed their Oscar-nominated song, When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings, from the Coen Brothers’ Western anthology The Ballad of Busters Scruggs. The Oscar went to Lady Gaga’s Shallow, from A Star Is Born.
That aside, here’s a recording of Gil and Dave’s first visit to Des Moines.

Nearly missed a nice set of early demos of Gillian Welch pre-Revival from the uniformly excellent MIDNIGHT CAFE

Gillian Welch - Previval early demos - Midnight Cafe

Now we love Gillian Welch and her hubby Dave Rawlings and this is a treat as it is demos of a star in the making . . . . . . this is just astonishing for a debut and if you do one thing today put on '455 Rocket' and if it don't have you dancing round the living room there's something wrong with boogie bone and you should seek immediate help from your Doctor!

Gillian Welch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Lovely interesting interview with Gillian Welch over at 'Aquarium Drunkard' this morning and she is just endlessly fascinating to me. That deep Americana weirdness and who should pop up here but the master Mr T-Bone Burnett. Everything she plays makes my ears prick up, with the songs haunting high and lonesome sound and the titles and overheard snippets of lyrics makes me ask "what IS she singing about?" With her partner David Rawlings, whose own solo work is a treat, they celebrate all that is interesting in American Folk Music to these ears




Gillian Welch - The Aquarium Drunkard interview

Mo' COUNTRY

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS 

- Hickory 1997

Gillian Welch - Hickory 1997

Another fine set from Big O this morning, a beautifully intimate recording from Hickory, North Carolina over at Bill and Claire’s House 

Big O says:

Thanks to VACAVER; LJ (transfer); and to JerryRocks for sharing the show at Lossless Legs.
VACAVER noted:
I received this in a trade years ago and am releasing it to the public as I know a few others out there with it now; however, searches at the most popular trade list sites did not turn this up, so I’m helping it find wings. This is an extremely intimate show with Gil and Dave performing for a few people including some musicians whom I do not know the names of. To my understanding, this was a one-off house party, the hosts obviously two cats named Bill and Claire. Regardless of the venue and circumstances, this is an amazing performance with pristine audio. I hope you enjoy.
buckaroobonzai, Lossless Legs:
There are a number of house concerts hosted by Bill & Claire Jost the evening prior to the stage concerts at Acoustic Stage (which they coordinate unless I am mistaken).
gems, Lossless Legs:
End of track 7 into track 8 you can literally hear the North Carolina crickets outside.  Truly an unbelievable capture.

at one point Gillian explains she is never quite sure about dogs and had to increase her foot tapping during one song to put off the hound near to her foot! This is back porch brilliance at it's clearest!

Enjoy! I know I did!

Astonishingly good quality and as as intimate as it gets . . . . . . . . 

Get Gillian Welch recordings here 

and Dave Rawlings Machine here

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVE RAWLINGS w/ T Bone Burnett