Gillian Welch & David Rawlings @ Largo (March 31, 2009)

Where to I begin? if you're lucky enough you'll come across a musician or an ensemble that normally would not be a part of your usual genre of music that rips through your body and finds a permanent place in your soul. Welch and Rawlings (+ Guests) have that kind of approach. it's what dr. pepper did to my coca cola and since then i cannot live without it. not to say that i need it everyday to function as a "normal" human being but when i'm in the mood for just down right good music i will now go for welch and rawlings. Any aspirations to play the acoustic guitar (like that of Welch and/or Rawlings) has gone out the window crossed the street to the nearest post office got a passport applied for a tourist visa received the appropriate vaccinations and went to some exotic foreign nation in which has no public irrigation water system (if you know anything about me this is one of my limitations as a world traveler..i just can't get comfortable enough for when number two is calling). by the way that was a compliment of their talents and they should never be associated to poo in any form or another. i'm just saying how amazing their guitar playing skills are that's it's beyond my reach (at this moment anyway) in any event it was an amazing experience. if you haven't been to the largo its what i imagine what concert going use to be like in vaudeville times. you sit down and enjoy the show. nothing to distract you (in the form of glow sticks and a steady stench of bud) nothing to "enhance" (in the form of alcohol)the show. their abilities and music accomplishes that already. the largo is a small quaint theater that conjures up fond memories at your "grandmother's home." still, the largo and subsequently the artists who perform there are an emergence between environment and artist to create the concert experience. which rarely occurs, at least in this money-making scheme that calls itself the american music industry (at least in my humbled opinion). as for welch and rawlings their blue-grass, americana, folk music (think "O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is history in a show without boring you to tears unless your a.d.d. gets the better of you (and if that's the case you should just walk to norms and order yourself the steak dinner because you just don't open yourself to music and will never understand what that really means). i could ramble on if i haven't already needless to say Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have made "the list."

enjoy the music.