PRESS – David Rawlings

Acoustic Magazine – March 2011
I’d seen some bands play that were just two people on guitar […] and figured it was not too strange to have a band with two guitarists,’ he continues. ‘I thought that perhaps there might be some ground there to be broken’ READ PAGE 1 | READ PAGE 2

Fretboard Journal – Summer 2010
Dave and his Epiphone Olympic are featured on the cover of the Summer 2010 edition of this guitar-centric quarterly. More pictures and an interview are inside. Follow this link to purchase a copy.

MOJO – April 2010 –
“Hail to the best Americana debut album of the year.” READ FULL ARTICLE

VANITY FAIR – December 2009
“Verdict: Buy it” READ FULL ARTICLE

THE SUNDAY TIMES – December 2009
Top Albums of 2009. “…songs that recall the timeless, surreal majesty of the Band at their finest.” READ FULL ARTICLE

UNCUT – December 2009 –
“Gillian Welch’s other half cuts fine, familiar-feeling first solo album.” READ FULL ARTICLE

ROLLING STONE – November 2009 –
“…as soul-baringly timeless as Twenties Delta blues.” READ FULL ARTICLE

PASTE MAGAZINE – November 2009
“It’s hard to believe A Friend of a Friend is David Rawlings’ first album under his own name.” READ FULL ARTICLE

AMERICAN SONGWRITER – November 2009
“Welch and Rawlings have a thing they’re known for, a thing they’ve done for more than a decade with such singular commitment, chemistry and finesse that critics invoke them as measuring rods…” READ FULL ARTICLE

THE SUN (UK) – November 2009
“…the album is a tour de force.” READ FULL ARTICLE

OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY (UK) – November 2009 –
“an effortless success” READ FULL ARTICLE

SUNDAY EXPRESS (UK) – November 2009 –
“One of the albums of the year” READ FULL ARTICLE

THE SCOTSMAN (UK) – November 2009
“a collection of beautifully wrought Americana” READ FULL ARTICLE

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Photo by Mark Seliger

Photo by Mark Seliger

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Dave Rawlings is an award winning guitar player, singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his work with Gillian Welch, Old Crow
Medicine Show, and Ryan Adams. His Machine’s debut album A Friend Of A Friend was released in 2009 on Acony Records. He was voted 2012 Americana Instrumentalist Of The Year.

Featuring members of Gillian Welch, Punch Brothers, Led Zeppelin, and former members of Old Crow Medicine Show, the current touring iteration of the Dave Rawlings Machine will provide a night of distinctive picking, high lonesome songs, and many other fine acoustic entertainments.

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