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Steve Ford

Dream a Highway: A Grand Finale for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Australia

Dream a Highway: A Grand Finale for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Australia

This was the last night on tour in Australia for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, the culmination of 4,500 road miles and 14 shows. The caravan began in Perth as An Evening with Gillian Welch, rolling across the Nullabor Desert to Adelaide, on to Melbourne and up the East

Dave Rawlings Machine at A&I Hall, Bangalow NSW

Dave Rawlings Machine at A&I Hall, Bangalow NSW

On, this, their first tour of Australia, the Dave Rawlings Machine was scheduled to play the four capital cities on the eastern mainland ... and Bangalow, New South Wales. I guess it was something of a busman's holiday. Bangalow (population 2,000) lies in the lush, sub-tropical hinterland near

An Evening with Gillian Welch, Enmore Theatre, Sydney

An Evening with Gillian Welch, Enmore Theatre, Sydney

The previous Australian tour of Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings is the stuff of legend. Folks who caught one of those shows back in 2004 recall it with the kind of dewy-eyed reverence usually reserved for the likes of Springsteen or the Stones. The show I saw, at Parramatta in