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Artist | Dave Rawlings Machine
Title | Nashville Obsolete
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 44:47
Label | Acony Records Store | 2015
Catalog | ACNY-1512 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 238 kbps Size | 80.00 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The Weekend 5:29
02. Short Haired Woman Blues 6:43
03. The Trip 10:55
04. Bodysnatchers 5:56
05. The Last Pharaoh 3:37
06. Candy 4:10
07. Pilgrim (You Can't Go Home) 7:57
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────┤ Notes ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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Guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer David Rawlings is best known
for his longtime collaboration with musical partner Gillian Welch, with
whom he has written and recorded a number of critically acclaimed folk and
neo-traditional albums. He has also produced and collaborated with artists
like Old Crow Medicine Show, Ryan Adams, Robyn Hitchcock, and Conor Oberst,
among others. In 2009, he launched his solo career, releasing his debut
album, "Friend Of A Friend", under the name Dave Rawlings Machine.
Essentially a continuation of his partnership with Welch, but with his
songs and voice taking the lead role, the band also featured members of Old
Crow Medicine Show, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and several others. Like
his work with Welch, the album was largely in the neo-traditional acoustic
style and showcased his high lonesome tenor vocals and inventive guitar
work played, as always, on his signature instrument, a 1935 Epiphone
arch-top guitar. After Rawlings' involvement in various other projects,
including his and Welch's fifth LP, Dave Rawlings Machine returned again in
2015 with their sophomore LP, "Nashville Obsolete", again on Welch's Acony
Records.
"Nashville Obsolete" is the second solo outing for ace guitarist and
producer David Rawlings, who for nearly two decades has shared the load
with creative partner Gillian Welch to become one of folk and country
music's most celebrated duos. Like 2009's "Friend Of A Friend", this
seven-song mini-album is billed under the Dave Rawlings Machine banner and
features a small ensemble that sees Rawlings and Welch swapping roles in
what has become their familiar format.
His reedy tenor voice that usually melts so effortlessly with Welch's takes
the lead here on a set of melancholic songs that channel tones of Bob Dylan
and Neil Young through the Dust Bowl filter that has become his bailiwick.
With Welch and former Old Crow Medicine Show member Willie Watson
supporting him on guitar and harmonies, the group also includes Punch
Brothers' Paul Kowert on double bass.
Beautifully captured on tape with the mix of spontaneity and
professionalism expected from a Rawlings/Welch performance, "Nashville
Obsolete" has something of a brooding grandeur to it with standouts like
"Short Haired Women" and the meandering, 11-minute "The Trip" feeling
bigger and deeper than the small group of players producing them. Aside
from some of the added instrumental ornamentations - which are all quite
tasteful - this neo-traditional country with a noir bent is familiar
territory for Rawlings, and the album files pretty easily into the existing
body of work he's made with Welch, regardless of which one of them is at
the front mike.
More uptempo songs like "The Last Pharaoh" and "Candy" keep things from
becoming overly downcast and the album ends on a high note with "Pilgrim
(You Can't Go Home)," a song that mixes dazzling three-part harmonies with
a bit of the latent rock spirit that always seems to be buzzing at the edge
of Rawlings' periphery.
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