Monday, November 25, 2024

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (11/23/24)

I’ve been waiting for just the right show to finally see the Goodyear Theater in Akron, and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings was it!  I knew it had been awhile since the last time I saw them, 2011 to be exact, which really got me even more excited for this one.  Both the quality of the performance - and the still stringent restriction on photos and video - hence the minimal media.  Still, this is some top quality performance and musicianship.

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (11/23/24)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (11/23/24)

"It had been too long since Welch and Rawlings set foot in Northeast Ohio (if setlist.fm can be believed, the last time the pair played in the area was at the Kent Stage in 2011), and the singer/songwriters made up for it by treating the capacity crowd to two hours of tunes spanning the myriad projects they collaborated on over the past three decades.

While their brand of folk and bluegrass-indebted music is deceptively restrained and mild-mannered, the show was engaging from the moment the pair launched into ‘Orphan Girl,’ their voices and guitars (and occasional banjo) melding together as if part of a single organism."

(Via Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Hold Audience Rapt With Beautiful Folk Music at Akron Concert | Cleveland | Cleveland Scene.)

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