Dave Rawlings Machine

Tune into A Prairie Home Companion tomorrow for a rerun of DRM’s performance

admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:40:19 +0000

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a colorful mix of two shows from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee will be re-broadcast. Featuring Emmylou Harris and Sara Watkins as diner waitresses in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys, Fred Newman as teenage heartthrob Justin LaFever, dueling fiddlers Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan, the Dave Rawlings Machine, and signs of spring in Lake Wobegon. Click here to find a radio station that carries the show in your area, or listen to the live stream Saturday, from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. CST by visiting www.prairiehome.org (You can hear a rebroadcast of the live stream on Sunday, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. CST).

New Dave interview in Acoustic Magazine

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:29:44 +0000

I’d seen some bands play that were just two people on guitar [...] and figured it was not too strange to have a band with two guitarists,’ he continues. ‘I thought that perhaps there might be some ground there to be broken’

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DRM’s version of “This Land Is Your Land” on NPR

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:08:29 +0000

A clip of Dave’s version of “This Land Is Your Land,” including his spoken introduction, can be heard on NPR’s All Things Considered from January 31, 2011. The clip is taken from Dave and Gillian’s performance at the Concert For Equality in Nebraska last year. The episode, which can be streamed online or downloaded as an MP3, interviews Conor Oberst about the concert and his new album.

(Photo by Lindsey Best)

Here & Now – Dec. 29th

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:20:54 +0000

Dave’s recent Here & Now interview will be rebroadcast on your local NPR station on Wednesday, December 29th at 12:39pm EST. Click here to view a list of the NPR stations and their local Here & Now broadcast times. Or you can listen live on the web at 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET by choosing a live stream from WBUR.

A Friend of a Friend in MOJO’s top Americana albums of 2010

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:20:29 +0000

The Dave Rawlings Machine’s A Friend of a Friend just turned one year old! And just in time for its first birthday, it is gracing the pages of MOJO in their “Best of 2010″ list, #2 following Willie Nelson, in the January 2011 issue.

RIP Solomon Burke

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:26:46 +0000

UK Tour wrap-up

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:06:37 +0000

The UK/Europe tour with Old Crow Medicine show is done, and everyone had a great time! We have posted some audience videos on the video page, as well as lots of great shows reviews, which you can read after the jump.

Do you have pictures or video from the tour? Feel free to post them in the comments section!

review of Glasgow show from the Herald Scotland
John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame joined the Dave Rawlings Machine as a special guest on their UK tour with Old Crow Medicine Show. Here’s an excerpt from a review from the Herald Scotland of the show at the ABC in Glasgow:

“Jones was a casually accomplished cog in a Rawlings Machine that played way above its opening act status. Essentially Rawlings’ long-time partnership with the sweetheart of the old-time murder ballad, Gillian Welch, reversed so that he’s out-front and she’s the harmonic embellishment, this is a machine with a heart as well as plenty of horse power. With three- sixths of Old Crow Medicine Show completing the line-up, the orchestrations of fiddle, mandolin, guitars, banjo and upright bass were rich and robust but beautifully tempered behind Rawling’s passionate singing and brilliantly inventive and expansive playing on his vintage Gibson guitar.”

Full review here.

5-Star Review from the Scotsman
“Dave Rawlings is best known for playing second banjo to his partner Gillian Welch but Dave Rawlings Machine is his opportunity to take charge and, in this support slot to his friends, associates and sometime bandmates Old Crow Medicine Show, it looked like he might run away with all the glory.

Welch was present and attempting to keep a low profile in the ensemble but there was no hiding the excitement of the crowd at her presence. And who was that unassuming older gentleman on mandolin? No less than John Paul Jones of Led-freakin’-Zeppelin, just getting on with business.”

Read the whole review here.

Backroads posted a great review of the OCMS/DRM London show at the Troxy. Here’s an excerpt:

“Is it possible to have too much talent on a stage at once? Do you risk duelling banjos amid the multiple mandolins? To be honest, the only thing the audience risked at this show was experience overload. After all, when Dave Rawlings Machine is the “opening” act and they’ve roped in Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, while Old Crow Medicine Show have invited along Mumford & Sons… It was quite a remarkable evening in East London.”

Read the whole review here.

from The Independent.

“The Stetson-wearing shadow of Dave Rawlings looms in the spotlight, making the art deco splendour of this East End hall dance with the ghosts of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. Rawlings’s musical and life partner, Gillian Welch, members of Old Crow Medicine Show – his protégés and tonight’s headliners – and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones are beside him, in a special formation of his band
the Dave Rawlings Machine. Mumford & Sons will show up later, somewhat incongruously. Because this last of “indoor festival” Campfire Trails’ three nights here is the most coherent, offering a strong dose of old-time Americana.”
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from MusicOMH.com.

“Special guests were promised for this final instalment of Campfire Trails, and that promise was certainly fulfilled from the very start. For the Dave Rawlings Machine opening set, the wonderful Gillian Welch made her first appearance on a London stage since 2003. The Rawlings-Welch partnership were also joined by members of Old Crow Medicine Show and, unassumingly at the far end of the stage, by the legendary John Paul Jones on mandolin.”
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from folkradio.co.uk.

“The closing night of the three-day Campfire Trails event at East London’s The Troxy was highly anticipated enough for hosting bluegrassers Old Crow Medicine Show and their frequent touring partners Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, and yet Friday, rounding off two prior evenings headlined by The Felice Brothers and Wild Beasts respectively; culminated in a ferocious display of musical talent and surprise special guests, making this one of the live performance highlights of the year – not to mention hugely surpassing most punters already sky high expectations.”
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Dave on the cover of The Fretboard Journal

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:56:34 +0000

Dave and his Epiphone Olympic guitar are heavily featured in this issue of the quarterly guitar magazine, The Fretboard Journal. Visit their website to order a copy.

Dave and Gill featured on Squidbillies

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:54:40 +0000

WFUV with Rita Houston

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:20:40 +0000

Dave recorded two programs for WFUV with Rita Houston last month, both of which aired this week and can be accessed through their archive. Words and Music from Studio A, which is an hour-long interview featuring live performances by the Machine, can be accessed here. Take Five, a 5-minute version of the performance, is here.