Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend | CD review

Gillian Welch's musical partner steps into the solo spotlight with a more boisterous version of the "old timey" sound that he and Welch have perfected. Welch's mountain harmonies and co-writing skills are rarely far away, but Rawlings's reedy, Dylanesque voice dominates, and his proteges, Old Crow Medicine Show, lend an exuberant touch to Ryan Adams's "To Be Young" and Jesse Fuller's "Monkey and Engineer". At the heart of the record lies a stark take on Conor Oberst's "Method Acting" and Neil Yo...

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