Tamsin Lucas wrote: > Her voice is amazingly melancholic and the music is simple, > sparse yet really affecting. Love it. Anyone else?
Steve wrote: > YES!!!! Go see her live - she and David are terrific. I just did, Steve - back in December - I booked tickets to see them with Dr Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at The Barbican in London - unfortunately Dr Ralph got stuck in a South Carolina snowstorm so Gillian and David Rawlings did the whole concert - Three month's later I'm still thinking about it - her beautiful tone, with David's harmonies and dazzling lead runs cast a very special spell over the audience - I particularly loved the sound (and look) of his small bodied f hole type guitar - do you know the make, Steve? We've just had a great documentary series on BBC2 TV over here called 'Lost Highway' - a history of American country music - starting with The Carter Family (amazing b/w footage of Maybelle and Sara singing 'The Cannon-Ball', filmed out in a wind-blown field somewhere) and ending with Gillian Welch (interview interspersed with concert footage). The BBC have a good website for the series, with links to all the artists featured in the four epidsodes - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/folkcountry/losthighway/ PaulC "There was one of the old banjo players from the Opry - when he first heard Earl Scruggs play the banjo, he said, "Well, I'm just gonna take my banjo home and make a hen's nest out of it." [Ricky Scaggs]
