Gillian Welch - Everything Is Free - Merlefest 2006

This was at the Creekside stage if any of you were there you saw a great show that day.

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Music

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• Gillian
• Welch
• Everything
• Is
• Free
• Merlefest
• 2006

[Abacus330]

Davis Rawlings hits a bum note. Great, no one is perfect....yippee.. well except me .... Great video, thanks

[ifeelfein]

Sorry to burst your perfection bubble but... his name is David Rawlings thanks it was fun there

[sugarlahlah5000]

that's not a bad note in the solo... that's just dissonance. :) thanks for this video.

[pegcoats73160]

music that makes me cry... in a good way:-)

[rocketmanab]

Dont think it was a bad note at all...thats how Dave plays. Quite deliberate I'm sure.

[ejohnsonious01]

@waldo2384

Yeah, exactly. Whether it was intentional when his finger went down towards the string, it had become intentional by the time his finger came back up.  Totally appropriate to the solo musically and to the feel and subject of the song.

[dillonpadgette]

@dillonpadgette And I would go as far to give him credit that he did it somewhat purposefully because he repeats it in the end, and it gives it a very broken record effect, thats subtly off-putting in a really amazingly beautiful way.

[dillonpadgette]

@waldo2384 It almost sounded like a broken records which is so cool.

[dillonpadgette]

David is a master. He has such a musical voice too, which is more than any proficient musician could dream of. The odd chord/notes are part of what makes him amazing, as he can take major leaps and always make something so refreshingly dark, gentle, yet courageous and beautiful have such life... more than the vast majority of players you'll here for your entire life.

[waldo2384]

There's no such thing as a wrong note in an improvisation, so long as you know how to get to the next note. Dave hit a dissonant sixth interval and then moved it up a half-step to bring it back into key. I don't know if he meant to get that far out or not, because he got out of it so elegantly. It sounded fantastic to me.

[gtrrobster]

Great video.Thanks!

As for the 'bad note' discussion, I think if anyone has earned the right to hit an occasional mistrike, I think it is Rawlings. the guy is one of the finest imrpovisers I have ever heard, ALSWAYS adding to the song and changing it up. He played a great solo, and what it sounds like he was doing an 'ascending 6ths fill (alla Brown Eyed Girl) and missed the shape by a fret....big deal,he kept rolling w/o losing the groove. That is an all important skill

[Abacus330]

@harshtimey Agreed... In fact there might be no such thing as a bum note.