THIRD SOLO ALBUM OUT AUGUST 11th ON ACONY RECORDS
TOUR DATES CONFIRMED
“Rawlings is the most original guitar player of his generation.”
–The New Yorker
“…[Rawlings] continues as America’s most low-key guitar hero; his sparkling lines and harmonies cling to [Gillian] Welch’s rich vocals like smoke plumes.”
–Rolling Stone
“Now I know why Dave prefers driving to flying. This is soul music, down and dirty. He’s rediscovered America. I could listen to these songs a hundred times.”
–Garrison Keillor
Acclaimed songwriter and guitarist David Rawlings will release his third album, Poor David’s Almanack, on August 11th via Acony Records, and it is streaming now in full via NPR First Listen. NPR calls the album “a sweetly engaging, impressively wide-ranging collection of American roots music.”
For Poor David’s Almanack, Rawlings leaves the Dave Rawlings Machine moniker behind and serves up a wry mixture of acoustic and electric music rich in ageless American vernacular. The album of ten new songs was engineered by studio wizards Ken Scott (Beatles, David Bowie) and Matt Andrews on analog tape during a week of sessions at legendary Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Rawlings and long time compatriot Gillian Welch joined together with Willie Watson, Paul Kowert, Brittany Haas, Ketch Secor, and Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes to produce an album for all seasons.
Recently, The Wall Street Journal ran an in-depth interview with Rawlings, where they hailed him as an “extraordinary folk guitarist with a sympathetic ear and bell like tone,” who “tends to favor thoughtful single-note or arpeggiated solos that follow their own logic and aren’t locked into a cliché.” Rolling Stone Country also premiered the first single from Rawling’s forthcoming album, “Cumberland Gap”. The rollicking cut features Gillian Welch, and Rolling Stone Country calls it “haunting” and a “Southern Gothic stomp.”
The touring iteration of Rawlings’ band, the all-star Dave Rawlings Machine, will embark on the first leg of a national tour this August to support Poor David’sAlmanack, as well as perform favorites from the first two Dave Rawlings Machine records, A Friend of A Friend and Nashville Obsolete. Full list of dates below and you can find more info here.
Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & The Harvest, her latest album and a collaboration with Rawlings, was released for the first time on vinyl on July 28th. Poor David’s Almanack will also be released as a phonographic record, and you can read more about Rawlings and Welch’s vinyl process in the Wall Street Journal article, Why Vinyl’s Boom Is Over.
This release marks the 8th studio collaboration between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Their creative partnership spans over two decades and includes the GRAMMY-nominated The Harrow and the Harvest (2011), the much lauded and latest Rawlings release, Nashville Obsolete, which landed on numerous 2015 year-end best‐of lists, and the 2001 GRAMMY-nominated masterpiece Time (TheRevelator). All releases are available on Acony Records, the independent label they founded in 2001. In recognition of their remarkable career, Welch and Rawlings were honored with the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2015 and the Berklee American Masters Award in 2016.
David Rawlings– Poor David’s Almanack Track List
01 Midnight Train
02 Money Is The Meat In The Coconut
03 Cumberland Gap
04 Airplane
05 Lindsey Button
06 Come On Over My House
07 Guitar Man
08 Yup
09 Good God A Woman
10 Put ‘Em Up Solid
Preorder the album here.
Dave Rawlings Machine Tour Dates – Tickets at http://www.davidrawlingsmusic.
August 16 /// Louisville, KY /// WL Lyons Brown Theatre
August 17 /// St. Louis, MO /// Sheldon Concert Hall
August 18 /// Kansas City, MO /// Folly Theater
August 20 /// Lyons, CO /// Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
August 23 /// Minneapolis, MN /// Pantages Theatre
August 24 /// Madison, WI /// The Capitol Theater
August 25 /// Chicago, IL /// Thalia Hall
August 26 /// Bloomington, IN /// The Bluebird
More dates to be announced soon.