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David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch. He has also released two albums under the name Dave Rawlings Machine. == Biography == David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli. He is known in his own right as a producer, having produced Welch and bands such as Old Crow Medicine Show. He has recently as the frontman of a band titled "Dave Rawlings Machine." Other members of the band include Gillian Welch, Willie Watson, Paul Kowert, and Brittany Haas. He has also contributed to the Bright Eyes album ''Cassadaga'', the Ryan Adams album ''Heartbreaker'' (which opens with "Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey"), and the Robyn Hitchcock album ''Spooked''. Rawlings co-wrote the tracks "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" and "Touch, Feel and Lose", with Ryan Adams. David Rawlings achieves his signature guitar sound flatpicking a small archtop guitar. The 1935 Epiphone Olympic that has been his primary instrument was a mid-priced guitar for its time, with a carved arched solid sprucewood top, carved arched solid mahogany back and mahogany sides.〔1934 Epiphone sales catalog〕 It sold for about $35 in 1935.〔(David Rawlings' guitars, Acoustic Guitar Central )〕 The guitar's lower bout measures 13 5/8 inches wide, and it has three piece f-holes.〔 The Dave Rawlings Machine album ''A Friend of a Friend'' was released on November 17, 2009. Rawlings recorded the album in Nashville, and produced it himself. Co-writers and musicians on the album include Welch as well as members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Bright Eyes. Rawlings is also best friends with movie producer Douglas Wick.〔http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/20/040920fa_fact_wilkinson〕 In 2015 Dave Rawlings Machine released a second album ''Nashville Obsolete''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Rawlings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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