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  The Wonderful Mr. Watson

  O.C.M.S.'s loss has clearly been Dave Rawlings Machine and Acony Record's gain.

  • September 22, 2017

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  sarahct But they did a FREE SHOW in Portsmouth last month and I caught it!

  • August 1, 2017

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  sarahct Newport was lacking in Dave and Gill, most notably during the Chuck Berry salute, but I got to see IanF (although he didn't see me

  • August 1, 2017
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  sarahct Y'all, Get Ian Firzgerald's records! He's ianf here and I just saw him live and he's GOOD!

  • July 27, 2016

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  sarahct It looks like ianf is playing Newport Folk Fest. That's you, right?

  • May 25, 2016

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    ianf That *is* me. And I'm not-so-secretly hoping that Gillian and Dave are added to the lineup in some form.

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    sarahct You were terrific! Everyone go see Ian! I almost said hi but I figured you might bot know who I am. I asked Gill if there was any chance and she said it was a *really* long shot, but I held out hope til the last minute.

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    ianf Thanks so much. If you see me again, please do say hello; it would be great to meet you.

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  • November 25, 2015

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    RunningRattie Damn. SarahCT, owning the DRM fandom and looking great doing so. Nice photos from what must have been a fantastic experience... would love to hear the story. Woo!

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    sarahct I'm not too subtle. I asked if I could see her after the show for an autograph I had really nice chats with everyone in the band, actually, which was great.

    • November 25, 2015
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    RunningRattie Well who ever got anything by being subtle... that's fantastic. I had my moment tonight (not backstage, just outside with the rest of the loons ... perfect way to close out the tour. Would have loved to have spoken to Brittany at some point, if only to...  moreWell who ever got anything by being subtle... that's fantastic. I had my moment tonight (not backstage, just outside with the rest of the loons ... perfect way to close out the tour. Would have loved to have spoken to Brittany at some point, if only to thank her for bringing what she has brought to DRM. Thanks for sharing.  less

    • November 25, 2015
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  sarahct I remember an interview in which Dave mentioned what his first guitar was, and that he still has it and composes on it. I cannot dig it out of my shambling archives, and I want to add that factoid to my bio. Anyone know?

  • October 12, 2015

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    tomj wasn't there a taylor cutaway with the the tone rolled off somewhere in the very early mix too? Pretty sure that's the guitar you here on that really early bootleg (sponwed will know the one) with The Riverboat Song etc on.

    • October 13, 2015
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    sponwed Yup, it was a Taylor.

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    sarahct I mean before that, the one his parents bought. I know he said what it was.

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    tomj It was a Harmony (according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyWTzAoZhzE)

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    sarahct Thank you! That was too deep in my brain for retrieval.

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  sarahct commented on gibsongirl's video.

  • August 4, 2014

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    sarahct I'm struck by how versatile her guitar playing is. When I watch her with Dave, she (and he) both play in a particular way to compliment each other. Playing alone, she has to reconfigure her style to make the songs solo pieces (except for One Little Song,...  moreI'm struck by how versatile her guitar playing is. When I watch her with Dave, she (and he) both play in a particular way to compliment each other. Playing alone, she has to reconfigure her style to make the songs solo pieces (except for One Little Song, one of the few solo pieces she has), and we see her do that in three different ways on these three tracks.  

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    JasonK It's gone!!!!!!

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    gibsongirl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnfdwEwKuM

    • August 3, 2014
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    sarahct It went away

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    gibsongirl i'm still seeing it..?

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  sarahct Andy Tenille, who took those marvelous photos of the recent DRM mini-tour, may be printing some for sale. I emailed him a while ago and was going to buy a picture, but now I need my pocket change so I have to wait. sigh. Nonetheless, consider sending him...  moreAndy Tenille, who took those marvelous photos of the recent DRM mini-tour, may be printing some for sale. I emailed him a while ago and was going to buy a picture, but now I need my pocket change so I have to wait. sigh. Nonetheless, consider sending him a note if you want to buy something, because he was getting ready to do a run.  

  • January 28, 2014
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  • January 25, 2014

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    gibsongirl you'll like this band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vK1G-AVms - oh aspiration...

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    gibsongirl sarah - your blog post from today made me think of the song i just uploaded - don't know if you know it already

    • February 2, 2014
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    gibsongirl well sure you know the song but this version? chicken on your back is one of those weird gillian mash-ups do you agree?

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    sarahct Where's chicken on your back?

    • February 6, 2014
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    gibsongirl http://www.gillianwelchanddavidrawlings.com/FansNetwork/music/44/gill-amp-dave-with-tony-rice

    • February 6, 2014
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  sarahct wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Why It's Good News That I Have Cancer!

  Some of you know that I have cancer. Again. I am in the hospital about to begin chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia; I will have a stem cell transplant in Boston as soon as we find a donor match. Anyway, what does this have to do with Dave and Gill? Y...

  • January 23, 2014

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    gibsongirl you'll like this band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vK1G-AVms - oh aspiration...

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    gibsongirl sarah - your blog post from today made me think of the song i just uploaded - don't know if you know it already

    • February 2, 2014
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    gibsongirl well sure you know the song but this version? chicken on your back is one of those weird gillian mash-ups do you agree?

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    sarahct Where's chicken on your back?

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    gibsongirl http://www.gillianwelchanddavidrawlings.com/FansNetwork/music/44/gill-amp-dave-with-tony-rice

    • February 6, 2014
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  sarahct There's this on the radar. You can hear Gillian on the sample track.

  • December 16, 2013

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    sarahct See above.

    • December 16, 2013
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  sarahct commented on sponwed's photo.

  • October 24, 2013

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    sponwed Benmont Trench, Sarah Watkins, ...?

    • October 24, 2013
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    sarahct I'd love to hear Willie. I don't know whether Willie and Ketch would perform together these days. Sara could certainly be the fiddle. (Isn't it Benmont Tench?) What about someone unexpected like Conor Oberst or Colin Meloy? Oh, the possibilities!

    • October 24, 2013
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  sarahct Thanks to the intrepid work of gibsongirl and masterbilt on the unofficialmartinguitarforum, it has come to my attention that Gill & Dave recently sold some guitars through Gruhns, and that the one she is playing at the show is a 1942 D-45 formerly...  moreThanks to the intrepid work of gibsongirl and masterbilt on the unofficialmartinguitarforum, it has come to my attention that Gill & Dave recently sold some guitars through Gruhns, and that the one she is playing at the show is a 1942 D-45 formerly owned by Wilma Lee Cooper. Wonder where the ones they sold ended up, looks like they are gone from Gruhn's inventory.  

  • October 3, 2013

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    Masterbilt If she'd sell the one with the big ugly pickguard...

    • October 4, 2013
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    sarahct I know she has said that she plays a lot of guitars, but that the J-50 is the one she gigs with and the one she plays on H&H. My ear is not sensitive enough to tell what other guitara she might be playing on earlier records. It will be fun to see if she...  moreI know she has said that she plays a lot of guitars, but that the J-50 is the one she gigs with and the one she plays on H&H. My ear is not sensitive enough to tell what other guitara she might be playing on earlier records. It will be fun to see if she has switched to the D-45 as a gigging instrument, and what is on the next record. Masterbilt, I'll be relying on you to address this with them the next time you happen into each other in a cafe in Paris.  

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    Masterbilt will do my best ;-)

    • October 4, 2013
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    gibsongirl and one of wilma lee cooper's most famous recordings was the trad/bluegrass "midnight special" that gil and dave opened with the other night together with willie watson - maybe a tribute to wilma lee..?

    • October 4, 2013
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    gibsongirl big midnight special - here with THE D45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCyi_-qbNzA

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  sarahct I saw this in a negative review, but I loved it! "Welch's...forlorn way of delivering each song as if her model T broke down on the way to the still..."

  • September 12, 2013

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    sponwed We should start a forum thread where we collect bad reviews.

    • September 13, 2013
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    gibsongirl i'd really like to tell mr perlich where to schtick his new schtick...

    • September 19, 2013
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    sarahct Negatory Purgatory. Producing negative reviews of talented artists who have gained popular traction is an entire subgenre of music criticism. (Not to be confused with bands who have some merit but seem to enjoy disproportionate critical adulation).
    
    In...  moreNegatory Purgatory. Producing negative reviews of talented artists who have gained popular traction is an entire subgenre of music criticism. (Not to be confused with bands who have some merit but seem to enjoy disproportionate critical adulation).
    
    In my opinion, to hear her singing and songwriting as forlorn and sad is to miss the redemption and positive stoicism of her delivery. It's something they've talked about regarding the recent record, but I've never found her music "sad," per se, or at least not simply so. But the imagery of the broken down model T (a la "Are You My Mother" for those of you with kids) and the still would put her in some fairly distinguished company, and I KNOW she's had more than a few barely-running Fords!  less

    • September 20, 2013
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    gibsongirl Don't look like much; just a flat black ford

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    sarahct I was listening to an old interview, from '95 maybe, and she gets talking about her cars because the interviewer says his car sounds funny. "It's a Chevy, though." "That's okay." Dave keeps them running, she said.

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  ianf is now friends with sarahct.

  • August 23, 2013
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  sarahct posted a topic in the forum Gillian Welch and David Rawlings "Guitar Tabs":

  I've Been Down Before

  Has anyone worked this one out? I was happily playing it out of Am (although I can't get that E to where I like it on the banjo, but that's my ineptitude). Then I loaded it into the Amazing Slowdowner and it isn't that at all. Granted, the recording may

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  Has anyone worked this one out? I was happily playing it out of Am (although I can't get that E to where I like it on the banjo, but that's my ineptitude). Then I loaded it into the Amazing Slowdowner and it isn't that at all. Granted, the recording may not be pitch correct because it's live, but there's still something I'm missing. Thoughts?

   

  • July 28, 2013
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  sarahct I like the live recordings where the sound guys mess up a little and Dave's vocals are miked too high. It's my only chance of figuring out what the heck he's doing back there.

  • July 19, 2013

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  sarahct is now friends with roadhog.

  • June 24, 2013
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  sarahct I put a musician's question up in the forums, if anyone would like to have a whack.

  • June 8, 2013
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  sarahct posted a topic in the forum Musicians:

  Help me understand the vocal harmonies

  So Gill spent all those years "trying to figure out what the Stanley Brothers were doing," and she did it. Me, I'm not quite there I usually sing back up because my husband has a lovely lead voice, and I'm sort of alto/contralto in range (like Gill,

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  So Gill spent all those years "trying to figure out what the Stanley Brothers were doing," and she did it. Me, I'm not quite there I usually sing back up because my husband has a lovely lead voice, and I'm sort of alto/contralto in range (like Gill, 'cept not as nice). When I hit that buzz, I can feel it, but I don't know how to find it. I recognize that a lot of it is listening to my partner and finding the exact lineup, which isn't mathematical, but a little math would really help.

  
  

   

  
  

  Any insights? Are they singing mostly close-interval thirds, and just nailing them, or are they doing weird stuff?

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  • June 8, 2013
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  sarahct David Wax Museum has added a bunch of youtube videos from backstage at Gill&Dave's Newport, 2011 set. They aren't great in terms of fidelity, since that's not an ideal spot to listen to the music, but if you want a front-row backstage seat, or to see the...  moreDavid Wax Museum has added a bunch of youtube videos from backstage at Gill&Dave's Newport, 2011 set. They aren't great in terms of fidelity, since that's not an ideal spot to listen to the music, but if you want a front-row backstage seat, or to see the view of Newport Harbor in the event that you've never had the pleasure of attending this festival, they're kind of fun (I met GibsonGirl at this show, so that was cool, even though I was so spaced out after high-summer festivaling with two small children that she had to introduce herself twice  less

  • May 15, 2013

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  sarahct My iTunes never knows where to put Gillian. I finally retagged everything "Appalachian Modernist Minimalist." I hope that covers it.

  • May 7, 2013

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  sarahct posted a topic in the forum Gillian Welch and David Rawlings "Guitar Tabs":

  Winter's Come And Gone

  I'm trying to tab this out on banjo. I'll post what I get and welcome any and all corrections or criticisms. Since it's not a banjo tune (although I read sonewhere that it was, originally), we have some leeway.

  • April 14, 2013
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  sarahct http://www.npr.org/2013/04/09/176156546/gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-on-world-cafe

  • April 9, 2013

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    sponwed Jason, I can send you an mp3 of the interview tonight if you want.

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    JasonK Tried to find the video mentioned at the end of something called Robert's Western Wear, any ideas? thanks sponwed.

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    sarahct I heard them talking about the tourist strip and the big honky tonk, Roberts Western Wear, but I didn't catch anything about a film.

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    sponwed http://vimeo.com/62957545#

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    sarahct Western World. That makes more sense. When she first said it I thought ahe was talking about a clothing store.

    • April 11, 2013
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