Right on with the Gillian Welch (and David Rawlings!). Funny I met her and David Rawlings at a songwriters workshop at the Lyon's Folk Festival in Colorado in 1996. I didn't care for their stage performance (mainly because you couldn't even hear her singing), but the workshop was a different story. We were about ten people in a 20x20 room. The voice she has is just beautiful. I had never heard a really talented person singing up close like that. No stereo can come close to the natural sound. Something neat is that they had just released the album and were hoping they would make it. A year or so after I saw their album getting 'by the door' shelf space in Downtown Chicago music stores.
Gillian and David are really nice down to earth people. They talked about how they wrote their own songs and were 'hoping' to make it. I guess that 'tear my stillhouse down' came when she heard that phrase on TV while in a hotel room on the road. She just kept singing that and they built a song around it. She was really excited that 'Emmylou Harris' had chosen to put her song 'Orphan Girl' on an album. I think David Rawling's name should be on the album title too. His guitar lines have simple but beautiful melodic lines to them. He plays an old, old small bodied Gibson with the 'f' soundholes. I think it was a from the late 1930's. It's something really special to meet some people just before they make it.
For great albums. It's one I've had for a few years, but I'm really getting into Neil Young's 'Sleeps With Angels'. Very intense. The album really comes through when you listen to it front to back.
Cheers all,
Gillian and David are really nice down to earth people. They talked about how they wrote their own songs and were 'hoping' to make it. I guess that 'tear my stillhouse down' came when she heard that phrase on TV while in a hotel room on the road. She just kept singing that and they built a song around it. She was really excited that 'Emmylou Harris' had chosen to put her song 'Orphan Girl' on an album. I think David Rawling's name should be on the album title too. His guitar lines have simple but beautiful melodic lines to them. He plays an old, old small bodied Gibson with the 'f' soundholes. I think it was a from the late 1930's. It's something really special to meet some people just before they make it.
For great albums. It's one I've had for a few years, but I'm really getting into Neil Young's 'Sleeps With Angels'. Very intense. The album really comes through when you listen to it front to back.
Cheers all,