On BBC 4 tonight - Steve Earle talks, then Gillian Welch in concert.
Posted by: Chunny Nochubb on 08 October 2004
Just seen these in the Radio Times -
Gillian Welch not to be missed, 2 Voices, two acoustic guitars, who needs anything else?
(Well they do at the end, when they get The Old Crow Medicine Show on stage for and encore)
Details as per below as from BBC4 website
20:30 Pop and Politics: Steve Earle
In his time, Texas-born Country rocker Steve Earle has done everything you would expect of a Nashville maverick: he's had multiple marriages, arrests and addictions.
But ten years ago he cleaned up his act and now his music and his activism reveal his passionate opposition to the death penalty and the war in Iraq.
Earle himself and friends and collaborators, including fellow singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, talk about his career as a red among rednecks; his last album, Jerusalem, about the fall out from 9/11; and his new one, The Revolution Starts Now, about Bush's war on terror.
21:00 Gillian Welch: BBC FOUR Sessions
Acclaimed country folk singer-songwriter Gillian Welch performs at LSO St Luke's in Shoreditch, accompanied by guitarist and collaborator David Rawlings.
Gillian Welch draws on folk, country, bluegrass and Appalachian mountain ballads to create her own sometimes bleak American music which manages to combine her love of both The Carter Family and The Pixies to make music that sounds both ancient and modern.
Drawing on the four albums Gillian and David have released since they first appeared with 1996's debut album, Revival, the concert includes Look at Miss Ohio, Revelator and - from the sound track of O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I'll Fly Away.
The session was recorded late this summer and includes a special encore version of The Band's the Weight with a guest appearance from punk bluegrass outfit The Old Crow Medicine Show
CNC
Gillian Welch not to be missed, 2 Voices, two acoustic guitars, who needs anything else?
(Well they do at the end, when they get The Old Crow Medicine Show on stage for and encore)
Details as per below as from BBC4 website
20:30 Pop and Politics: Steve Earle
In his time, Texas-born Country rocker Steve Earle has done everything you would expect of a Nashville maverick: he's had multiple marriages, arrests and addictions.
But ten years ago he cleaned up his act and now his music and his activism reveal his passionate opposition to the death penalty and the war in Iraq.
Earle himself and friends and collaborators, including fellow singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, talk about his career as a red among rednecks; his last album, Jerusalem, about the fall out from 9/11; and his new one, The Revolution Starts Now, about Bush's war on terror.
21:00 Gillian Welch: BBC FOUR Sessions
Acclaimed country folk singer-songwriter Gillian Welch performs at LSO St Luke's in Shoreditch, accompanied by guitarist and collaborator David Rawlings.
Gillian Welch draws on folk, country, bluegrass and Appalachian mountain ballads to create her own sometimes bleak American music which manages to combine her love of both The Carter Family and The Pixies to make music that sounds both ancient and modern.
Drawing on the four albums Gillian and David have released since they first appeared with 1996's debut album, Revival, the concert includes Look at Miss Ohio, Revelator and - from the sound track of O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I'll Fly Away.
The session was recorded late this summer and includes a special encore version of The Band's the Weight with a guest appearance from punk bluegrass outfit The Old Crow Medicine Show
CNC