Monday, March 29, 2004
Dear Someone
Gillian Welch is coming back to England! Somehow I've managed to miss this news until now, but I'm not sure whether to book her for both nights or just one at the Shepherd's Bush Empire...
Though I love all her albums, Time (The Revelator) is one of my favourite albums by anyone. Like The Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead it just has this arc to it - constant variation between styles (within the whole Americana bracket) leads into what feels like a 'finishing' number ('Everything Is Free' on this, 'There Is A Light Which Never Goes Out' on the Smiths' album), followed by a stunning coda ('I Dream A Highway'/'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others') - which is really hard to beat. I've never seen her live until now, though, and I can't wait to see the close Welch/Rawlings harmonies in action...
So gigs coming up for me are - Willard Grant Conspiracy/Handsome Family in April, Morrissey in May and Gillian Welch in July. But I'm the look out for others...
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