A Must See: “Going to California” Covered by Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch and John Paul Jones
Those Best of 2013 lists will wait won’t they? Great music continues to disrupt our brainwaves and aspirations. Principle amongst this disruptive music is the superb set of artists captured below that continue to portend and tease with a visit to Cali. Months later, we’re still waiting. It’s been a long, long, lonely time since Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch (in whatever Machine, guise or assembly) have graced these Western shores. We say it’s high time. We wrote last month about Rawlings and his Big Machine covering Going to California with Zep’s John Paul Jones, but until now we had not seen a proper capture of the cover. Now the cover has been perfectly captured by LiveandBreathing (via American Songwriter). Watch below as the ensemble gives this great song its proper due. What impresses most is Rawlings’ soulful vocals and the ensemble’s harmonies. Please come to Cali for the winter. Or the spring. Or the summer. Or the fall at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2014.