Last night at the Cat's Cradle.

It's just like seeing Gillian Welch - so it was great - except that when they're billed as the David Rawlings Machine, David chooses the songs and sings lead on most of them.

It looked like they weren't used to playing a lot of them and there wasn't a set list, so Gillian was often left scrambling to get her capo in the right place, after figuring out what song David had just started.

They did a few proper Gillian Welch songs, including the 'original' version of "Elvis Presley Blues", which David sings. But mostly they did covers, new and old - but all in that same old-school country/folk style: they opened with Dylan's "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" (sadly, not sung in the voice of Mr T), and closed with his "Queen Jane Approixmately"; they also did a Robyn Hitchcock song "Luminous Rose" (though Robyn's high notes proved to be out of reach for either of them), and they did a song Rawlings co-wrote with Ryan Adams, "To Be Young".

The place was packed.

Good stuff.