Saw Gil and Dave last night, at Durham's pretty Carolina Theater. That's the place we first saw them, many years ago. And if my memory is correct, last night was the eighth time I've seen them, either as "Gillian Welch" (5) or as the David Rawlings Machine (3). That bumps them to the top of the list of bands I've seen the most: making Robyn Hitchcock #2.

They don't have a new record to promote right now, so the show was a good mix of all their stuff. They hit every record pretty well, and played most of the songs I wanted to hear - and a few I wouldn't have thought to want to hear but was glad to hear anyway.

As always, they were fantastic. I can't think of a band that's as much fun to watch as those two. And yet they do their thing with absolutely no grandstanding or theatrics. They don't flex or strut and there's no spectacle. They just stand there and play and sing. They let the songs do everything. And it's perfect every time.