{"id":19545,"date":"2013-11-21T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19545"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T00:13:44","slug":"watch-dave-rawlings-machine-perform-going-to-california-last-night-with-john-paul-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-11\/watch-dave-rawlings-machine-perform-going-to-california-last-night-with-john-paul-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dave Rawlings Machine Perform &#8220;Going to California&#8221; Last Night with John Paul Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19548\" alt=\"hqdefault\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We love everything about <strong>David Rawlings<\/strong> and his collaborator<strong> Gillian Welch<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Rawlings<\/strong> is without doubt the most soulful acoustic-guitar shredder extant.\u00a0 Bar none.\u00a0 And <strong>Welch<\/strong> is, well, <strong>Welch<\/strong>.\u00a0 She can do no wrong in our book and has written some of the best songs of this generation (<em><strong>Time the Revelator, Miss Ohio<\/strong><\/em>, etc.).\u00a0 So were thrilled\/chagrined to learn that the <em><strong>Dave Rawlings Machine<\/strong><\/em> (the duo&#8217;s version in which <strong>Rawlings<\/strong> takes the vocal lead) would be going out on tour for the first time since 2010, but not coming to <strong>California<\/strong>.\u00a0 Just to rub it in (evidently) the band covered <strong>Led Zeppelin&#8217;s <em>Going to California<\/em><\/strong> in<strong> Nashville<\/strong> last night.\u00a0 The band started the evening with <em><strong>Will the Circle be Unbroken<\/strong><\/em> and ended with <em><strong>The Weight<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And along the way they covered <strong>Neil Young&#8217;s <em>Cortez the Killer<\/em><\/strong>, along with<strong> Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan<\/strong> songs and <em><strong>This Land is Your Land<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Be-still our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we&#8217;re reading the performance of <em><strong>Going to California<\/strong><\/em> wrong and instead it is a playful foreshadowing of a visit to California soon to come.\u00a0 We pray it so.\u00a0 You can check out two fan captures of the performance below in all it&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqAKe5QOXuE\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDjolVdvKIE\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love everything about David Rawlings and his collaborator Gillian Welch.\u00a0 Rawlings is without doubt the most soulful acoustic-guitar shredder extant.\u00a0 Bar none.\u00a0 And Welch is, well, Welch.\u00a0 She can do no wrong in our book and has written some of the best songs of this generation (Time the Revelator, Miss Ohio, etc.).\u00a0 So were 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