Faux mountain girl Gillian Welch and her stellar guitarist-partner Dave Rawlings (whose name is impossible to find on her web site) have a new DVD available. It includes all their videos from the “Revelator” CD and performances from the tour. The duo also do a few covers from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bill Monroe and Townes Van Zandt. Looks like Townes “White Freightliner Blues” and Dylan’s “Billy.” Great Townes tune but Dylan’s “Billy” was a pretty unremarkable tune from the movie, “Billy the Kid” in which the great white hope made his “serious” acting debut. I’d still like to hear what she/he do with the tune. Purchase it here.
From the monthly archives:
November 2002
According to an article on forbes.com: ” Six years after a landmark deregulation law lifted ownership limits on radio stations, airwaves in many cities are dominated by a few media behemoths that offer little in the way of variety or local content, the Future of Music Coalition found.” Read the article here. Read the report here.
Tidbits has a pretty exhaustive overview and commentary with plenty of links to other data on the DMCA. Read it here.









