Dave Rawlings Machine, 'Short Haired Woman Blues'

XPN | By Bruce Warren

Published December 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM EST

At the 2015 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony, held in September at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch received the Songwriting Lifetime Achievement Award. As recent guests on World Cafe, Rawlings and Welch huddled around one microphone to perform songs from Nashville Obsolete, the new album by Dave Rawlings Machine.

During the awards show, supported by a nine-piece string section, Rawlings and Welch performed "Short Haired Woman Blues." The song borrows its title from a Lightnin' Hopkins classic while conjuring the spirit of Gram Parsons and Neil Young.

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Bruce Warren

Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.

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