The Dave Rawlings Machine began as antidote and anodyne to the fame achieved by Rawlings’ partner Gillian Welch, whose austere and mythopoeic folk had become a bar set so high only a bar band could slip around it and reset expectations. Those loose Nashville jams have resulted in three albums for the guitarist and now band leader, the most recent being Poor David’s Almanack, credited to Rawlings himself and sounding like the Basement Tapes meets Harvest, without the latter’s string section and with much of the former’s collaborative, un-self-conscious spirit.…
The Dave Rawlings Machine began as antidote and anodyne to the fame achieved by Rawlings’ partner Gillian Welch, whose austere and mythopoeic folk had become a bar set so high only a bar band could slip around it and reset expectations. Those loose Nashville jams have resulted in three albums for the guitarist and now band leader, the most recent being Poor David’s Almanack, credited to Rawlings himself and sounding like the Basement Tapes meets Harvest, without the latter’s string section and with much of the former’s collaborative, un-self-conscious spirit.…