{"id":1401,"date":"2007-02-12T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2016-08-23T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:27:00","slug":"david-rawlings-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"David Rawlings Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the Cat's Cradle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/david_rawlings_machine.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Sony P7<\/div>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>They did a few proper Gillian Welch songs, including the 'original' version of <a href=\"\/songs\/elvis_presley_blues.mp3\">\"Elvis Presley Blues\"<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"\/songs\/luminous_rose.mp3\">\"Luminous Rose\"<\/a> (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\". <\/p>\n<p>The place was <em>packed<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the Cat's Cradle. Sony P7 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24608,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/24608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}