Saturday Morning Country: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Saturday, 28th August 2010
Been a long time since this pair featured in this slot. Too long. So here they are performing their already-classic I Want to Sing That Rock'n'Roll at St Luke's in London a few years ago:
Bonus: There's another, perhaps even better but sadly unembeddable version, here.
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Baron
August 28th, 2010 6:01pm Report this commentAlex, not a pair I like, thanks.
ndm
August 28th, 2010 6:57pm Report this commentA new album from the two-person band named Gillian Welch is long overdue.
In the non-embedded video I noticed they used a single mike that became fashionable again a few years ago. The first time I saw it used - and used well - was by the now defunct Denver band Open Road led by the marvellously named Bradford Lee Folk. One of their tracks, sadly over a photo, is on this YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdgiz02kKQU&feature=related
S Glackin
August 29th, 2010 2:51am Report this commentGod, they're astonishing.
I saw them a couple of years ago, he was playing backup to her song, got to the solo and instantaneously flipped a capo on fret seven to solo up a fifth interval, then at the end flipped it off and threw it over his shoulder to end up playing in the original key, without missing a single note...
Damndest thing I ever saw, in the most awed sense of that venerable americanism...
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