gillian welch & david rawings at carnegie hall

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Carnegie Hall - May 7, 2025

photo: toby tenenbaum

 

2020 mixtape invitational

my coworker sam puts together an annual collation of top song for the year end.  my third year participating here are 2019 and 2018. 

gillian welch at beacon theatre

gillian welch digs deep at the beacon theatre

hsb 16

it's been almost a decade since i've attended hardly strictly bluegrass. ester and I went when there were only three stages. the crowds were so small that we could be up front for gillian welch. now the festival has ballooned to 7 stages, but remained entirely free. thanks warren hellman! virginia was with me for day one as well and her first time at the festival brought revelations i hadn't noticed before. there are no sponsorship signs. everyone is just laid back. i think the 9 years in ny have drained a lot of that from me. it's good to be reminded of my roots. i really missed drinking in the park without having to look over my shoulder for a cop. no one is crazy drunk or belligerent. everyone is just happy and enjoying great weather (no fog this year) and music.

philly discovery - hop along

 fell in love with the cactus blossoms

as always no HSB is complete without a little gillian and dave rawlings, who covered ryan adams and ended with a cover of the band's "the weight."

night beds @ glasslands

haven't been to a show where i didn't have to review in a while. glad to have caught night beds off the clock at glasslands. the late sunday evening show wasn't so bad when the band broke into a cover of gillian welch's "the way the whole thing ends." obviously, i was the the yelping gal in the rafters when winston asked if anyone liked gillian.

first show at glasslands sans clouds

tiny desk concert: gillan welch and dave rawlings

turned my rotten morning upside down.

blind pilot covering gillian welch

wish shar was there to see israel and gang covering "look at miss ohio". one of my all time favorite gillian songs.

dark was the night

must forgot to mention in last entry: dark was the night. it was featured on the aforementioned asc segment. saki told me about this awesome widget to add my top 3. it was really hard to decide since all the tracks are stellar, but this was mine. you can make your own here.