“I wanna do right, but not right now.”***

***lyrics by Gillian Welch, “Miss Ohio”

Oh me oh my oh.

We’re in the Big City.

We’re going to a concert.

We’re wearing our boots.

Gillian Welch has a voice so strong and so unusual and so beautiful.

Dave Rawlings is one of the most original and brilliant guitarists I’ve ever seen or heard.

The audience consisted of devoted and respectful fans.  We could have–literally–heard a pin drop during almost all of the songs.  Gillian Welch was funny; Dave Rawlings was funnier.  We learned that lipstick turns a harmonica to “toast”, several (if not more) of GW’s songs are painfully personal and both performers play the banjo.  Their harmonies were perfect.  Awesome, even, in the true meaning of awesome.  Retired Mountain Lady was definitely leaning forward in her seat and listening to every single nuanced note.

Dancing Mandolin Player cheered and yahoo’d.

Recorder Man and Mandolin Ann brought their binoculars!  How cool is that?

After the show we drove to the airport to pick up Banjo Man and arrived back at the lake around 2 AM.  We sang all the way home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNUB56jwu-k

Enjoy.