David Rawlings - Poor David's Almanack (CD ALBUM)

David Rawlings - Poor David's Almanack (CD ALBUM)

Poor David’s Almanack is David Rawlings’ third album or his eighth, depending on how you count. In the last 10 years, he’s made two records as the Dave Rawlings Machine, a loose reference to the old Woody Guthrie slogan, but he’s made five more with his musical partner Gillian Welch under her name. They both play on each other’s record, they both inform the direction each other’s music takes, but they maintain separate musical identities. Yet, their combined catalog comprises perhaps the most ambitious and most peculiar corpus in roots music today, one that digs deep into the past to find neglected song forms and defiantly old-timey notions: new ways of old singing, of just inhabiting the music.

TRACKLIST

1. Midnight Train
2. Money Is the Meat in the Coconut
3. Cumberland Gap
4. Airplane
5. Lindsey Button
6. Come on Over My House
7. Guitar Man
8. Yup
9. Good God a Woman
10. Put 'Em Up Solid