We saw Gillian and David perform in Winnipeg. The venue has a failed air conditioner and it was sweltering hot and humid!! And it was maybe the best concert I've ever been to. When Gillian stepped her boots made a squishy sound from the sweat! They play like 1. They sing like 1. Just amazing
I saw this on PBS when it first aired! I recorded it on VHS tape and I also transferred it to cassette tape back then. I had never heard of them and was floored buy this performance! These songs are amazing!
I hadn't heard of them either when I saw Sessions at West 54th Street, probably late because I'm in Australia but it was 97. I always taped the show because I never knew who would be on. I seem to have lost the tape somewhere in a move - so thank heavens for RU-vid!
The thing I love about Gillian and her brilliant writing is that she is in fact an orphan girl who was adopted by people who wrote music for the Carol Burnett Show - so although she may genetically have great genius, I can't help but think that the atmosphere of being raised in a songwriting household must have been an advantage. These two are pure musical talent. I love this early clip.
Agreed. His playing is brilliant. And I see he is already playing that sweet '35 Epiphone Olympic archtop here too. I remember reading how he found it in a friends basement workshop but I didn't realize it was this early in their career. Dave can make that guitar sing.
Big smile. It is hard to sum-up these two amazing top of the Heep, Artists. Country, and blue ridge, and cowboy all wrapped into one. Beautiful people by God!
Thank you! I remember seeing this on PBS (I think) sometime in the late 90's. It was the first time I'd heard them and I remember being transfixed by this searing set. I went out and bought their music as soon as I could.
This is the best recorded version I’ve heard yet of Caleb Meyer. Dave plays with an intensive fury, as he should as the partner of Gillian. It’s SO good. One of those really “dark and pitiful” numbers that Gillian says they usually play only after sunset.
No kidding. Gillian sings of that assault by Caleb with anguish and her pure power of dispatching to the afterlife. Dave plays with a fury that says he’d kill Caleb again if he could.
@@debrabeck9630 You’re so welcome. It isn’t my content, but it was taken down on someone else and I thought it should be out in the world for all to enjoy.
Corey, you have no idea what it means to me to have this back. Thank you thank you thank you! And I don't mean I have some sentimental attachment to it - I just think it's one of the greatest sets of music I've ever heard. Found it, fell in love, and then it disappeared. Gonna stop writing now and watch it before it disappears again! (if it does, repost it!)
Conor Tiernan You're welcome! The set is how I first discovered Gillian and Dave. Have now bought every release and got to see them live early this year. If I could buy this episode of Sessions on DVD, I wouldn't hesitate.
Brilliant. David Rawlings seems to be one of those rare musicians who have a lightening-fast connection from their brain to their fingers, so all he has to do is 'think' the notes in real time, and they just happen. And Gillian is a powerful force of nature.
I saw this around the time it was broadcast.. I was transfixed but they never mentioned the name of the artists.. In Ireland in 1997, it was early internet days.. but I managed to find out it was Gillian and David.. Some of the most amazing music I've ever heard.. David is an unbelievable guitar player and their voices together is something really special.. Shit, just realised it's 20 years ago..
Right out of the gate, these two were astonishingly accomplished and beautifully attuned to each other - though, as noted below, at this stage the single voice they make together had not yet fully melded.
i remember hearing about her on some news show then i heard Caleb Meyer i thought the was three guitars playing on the track then i say this and realize how important David was to the sound of this music a true team.
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