4/30/2024 0 Comments Wayside back in time chords cowboy![]() “I love that I can put together a group of people that have never played together and with no rehearsal. ![]() Perhaps more importantly, the tour will also be a unique concert experience for both the crowd and the band, who, as of Monday, had not yet rehearsed. The show will touch on Rawlings’ 2009 album, “A Friend of a Friend,” which he and Welch made with friends as an outlet for songs that Rawlings sang and as a way to get back into recording mode before Welch’s 2011 album. “I drive booking agents and business people crazy.” The show was just announced last month, but Rawlings doesn’t like to plan too far in advance. “He called back two days later and said, ‘You know, that sounds like a good bit of fun.’ We found a window where everyone was available and put it on the books pretty recently,” says Rawlings. Jones was busy focusing on writing an opera when Rawlings approached him with the idea. Willie Weeks (who left Old Crow in 2011 and has previously played with the duo) and Punch Brothers’ bassist Paul Kowert round out the band. John Paul Jones has sat in with him and Welch on tour in the UK. “Anybody who really wanted to figure out this lineup probably could have,” laughs Rawlings. ![]() It’s not hard to figure out which Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is joining them on tour. So far the Dave Rawlings Machine, which plays Neighborhood Theatre Monday, is advertised as Americana’s reigning royal couple (you rarely meet young roots musicians who aren’t influenced by them) with members of Led Zeppelin, the Punch Brothers and a former member of Old Crow Medicine Show. “Because the lineup hasn’t been announced yet.” “When is this article going to run?” he asks at the beginning of our conversation. And as Rawlings told the crowd to bear with him for his best Robert Plant, the first chords of “Going to California” were met with wild cheers and laughter from the most engaged crowd Knoxville has seen in some time.Įveryone in the room wanted to hear at least one Led Zeppelin song, and as John Paul Jones laid into his signature licks, all was right with a show that couldn’t have been much better. At times throughout the night, it was hard to tell if he was holding his guitar up or if it was the other way around. Rawlings seemed to have even more fervor than normal. There were many highlights and there wasn’t a single moment that stood out as boring or lackluster. One of the dual-songs saw Bright Eyes’ “Method Acting” slowly creak its way into Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer.” Rawlings learned to play the former while on a short tour with Bright Eyes after Conor Oberst called him to fill in as a last second replacement in late 2007.Įarlier in the set “I Hear Them All” paved the way for “This Land is Your Land.” There were a couple of mashups in the set list as well.
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