This is Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with Old Crow Medicine Show playing "The Weight," a song made famous by The Band.
For the record (pun intended), the reference to Nazareth is to Nazareth, Pennsylvania which is the home of the Martin Guitar company (the Scottish band Nazareth was named after this town, not Jesus' birth place). Actually, to put a point on it, the band Nazareth was named after the reference to Nazareth, Pennsylvania made in this song. Ironically, Gillian plays a 1956 Gibson and Rawlings plays a 1935 Epiphone Olympic archtop. Too much trivia? Yeah, I do that. Apologies.
A previous Gillian Welch and David Rawlings clip on this blog can be found here.
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2 comments:
This is the only version I've heard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xQoNDFwlE
BTW, did you know that Levon Helm is back to singing, having fought off throat cancer? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBuJB218UvU
You've just happened to hit in an area of music of which I have some familiarity. I'm a bit of a The Band-o-phile.
The original version of "The Night
They Drove Ol'Dixie Down" is far superior to that crap Joan Baez version. I won't call it a cover.
What a wonderful, mellow cover of a great old song. Thanks for posting it.
Seahorse
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