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Dave Rawlings Machine

Published 8:00 am Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dave Rawlings Machine

Over the years, Gillian Welch’s longtime guitarist and collaborator Dave Rawlings has played for and collaborated with some of Americana’s most heralded performers – Welch, obviously, but also Ryan Adams and Old Crow Medicine Show – and produced some of their best records. But after releasing his first album, A Friend of a Friend, last November, Rawlings is finding out what it’s like to be a frontman for the first time in his esteemed career. “If I’m producing a record or doing some engineering or playing guitar, all these things come more naturally to me than being a frontperson,” he explained in an interview with SW (you can read the entire transcript of our interview with Rawlings on our music blog, Reverb.) No surprise, then, that he’s touring with a band of all-stars: Gillian Welch and OCMS members Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig and Willie Watson will all join him onstage for this special Valentine’s Day performance. All ages. SARA BRICKNER

Sun., Feb. 14, 8 p.m., 2010