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GREA7SAX A H077RUMPET ROVER WASHINGTON JR with very special guest Rick Braun kJz 'UE-AUG PM FOUR-TIME GRAMMY WINNER BUDDY GUY KjZ $55 with as yet untitled SUN -AUG 23 PM VOICEOFA GENERATION JOAN BAEZ with David Poe THU -SEP 3 PM All Shows Outdoors Under The Stars RADISSON HOTEL GROVE THE SHOW featuring INOJ LINK VOICES OF THEORY NICOLE plus more Lba talent subject to change FRIDAY AUGUST 28 Cosumnes River College Stadium Show at 6 PM Doors at 3:30 PM Counterfeit tlx will not be honorod Bo euro to buy only at authorized outlets DIMPLE RECORDS no sew ctogelandBASS jeaS Sprocket really no one cares the same Billed as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings the duo will perform that music at the Palms in Davis on Tuesday and Wednesday Welch whose singing voice falls somewhere between Emmylou and Iris promises her hidden sense of humor will be on full display during the shows just sing these low-down songs and wallow in she says This is important to note especially given that Among the is even more stark and ultimately more depressing than was the Gram-my-nominated Of the new record Welch says: the time we really started working oi it I was basically telling people it was going to be darker and more aggressive than Someone also suggested to me that just plain more lonesome with fewer references to family and home and I suppose true it like I set out to make a record that was more depressing if it is in fact more depressing And not sure it is I lived long enough with it to know yet These songs are pretty The tone for the new album was set early on as the first song Welch wrote for the recording was a dark haunting murder ballad with a twist: chick kills the Welch says slyly From there Among the came together quickly with Welch and Rawlings taking six months to write the other 10 songs definitely a more spontaneous record than Welch says was written faster and it was recorded faster so a little bit more of a snapshot than which was a more constructed record This is just a little bit more of a mo- Gillian Welch a gifted singer and songwriter whose music meets at the crossroads of traditional folk old-time country and Appalachian blue-grass specializes in beautifully bleak songs that are mournful lonely and decidedly serious songs that often sound like dusty decades-old FREEDOM DU LAC The Beat black-and-white photos come to life gothic photos in which nobody is smiling somewhat surprising then to hear Welch she of the murder ballads heartbroken love songs and ruminations on dead coal miners joking on the phone about band names The subject has come up because only own name and image appear on the covers of her two albums and the more recent Among the even though she collaborated on the recordings with guitarist-song-writer David Rawlings really are a band and if known at the beginning that it been easier if we were called Sprocket then we been Welch says with a slight snicker we come up with a band name so people now know us as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and not LORETTA LYNN CONCERT Wednesday August 12 ROUGH STOCK RODEO Thursday August 13 COWBOY COMPETITIONS Friday August 14 TUFF TRUCK RACING MONSTER TRUCK SHOW Saturday August 15 DESTRUCTION DERBY MONTANA Guest Appearance Sunday August 16 something beneficial in just ment in time I like that about keeping the process Needless to say Welch and Rawlings probably be spending six years making one album any time soon even if it did take Lucinda Williams that length of time to put together her masterful new For Welch though this be a problem given that she and Rawlings expect to touring for much of the next year and a half and that she has problems writing songs AT A GLANCE Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Perform at 8 pm Tuesday and Wednesday at the Palms Playhouse 726 Drummond Ave Davis $1675 advance (530) 756-9901 sense is that not a very productive or creative way to Welch says lot of the people I admire and (who) do good work it gets better when more like a record every year There seems to be could be while on the road lot of artists who were very' productive there was no extensive touring going on like there is these she says tour maybe a month and then home I know how good this current trend of touring and touring is for creative output I know good for performing chops but I know how good it is for making good records sense is that not very good and definitely interested in trying to make good records something have to figure FREEDOM DU LAC is The Bee's pop music critic Write him at PO Box 15779 Sacramento CA 95852 send e-mail to jdulacsacbeecom or call (91 6) 321 -11 15 Sunday Champagne Brunch With limitless champagne and delectable foods Sacramento Brewing Co Town Country Village CAPITAL SHOW POSTCARDS AND PAPER COLLECTIBLES SAT AUG 15th 10am-6pm SUN AUG 16th 10am-4pm 1 August 12-16 1998 Gold-panning competitions pioneer living history display livestock shows and auction climbing wall laser tag karaoke 5 wildlife shows chess tournament yo-yo 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