Gillian Welch - Revelator - BBC Concert

[@dreamwell2020]

Just so you know - it doesn't get a whole lot better than this.

[@benmeltzer]

You don't find David's guitar solo of over two minutes from 5:21 to 7:34 excessive (I mean in length, not in nature)?

[@moonlitme]

Well...time; the revelator. @@benmeltzer

[@brentraby1]

I could hear Rawlings guitar jams all night long@@benmeltzer

[@stephenboi22]

@@benmeltzerSure, the album version is much more tasteful, but I’m an addict for his lead.

[@johnkeith2450]

@@benmeltzer It's like a sexual act between the two. Transcends.

[@jedi098765]

song still slaps after 2 decades. will slap for centuries probably, but only time can reveal that

[@melissaleigh6]

Love this comment - time is and will ever be the true revelator, but I agree with you ❤

[@RichardRoberts-n6k]

I see what you did there !

[@DavidOchiltree]

I play guitar. At least I thought I did, until I saw and heard this man play. He aint frum earth, the man understands the instrument on a cosmic level. Christ, I wish I was born with that feel and touch. I am an old man, and knowing that I will never achieve what this guy does is kinda gallin...but, what the hell. At least I can listen to the man who owns the guitar!

[@N8ori0us]

It's ok. You're an old man... Get over yourself.

[@carolynwest1131]

I don't play -- and at 74, I never will. David Rawlings makes me feel as if I've wasted my life not learning. But as you said, I'd never reach his magic touch. But love love to listen to it. gosh, never heard the like before. Where have I been?

[@wildmano1965]

Ya got to go to the CROSSROADS.

[@bullyproofyomama]

He comes real close to chokin that olle’ arch top out, but decided to spare its life @ the last sweet second. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard two guitars making love before but here I am . That’s one kinky dude there 😎🤙🏼😅🤣

[@seosamhrosmuc]

@@carolynwest1131 Fuck that, give it ago, whats stopping you. I started making making music during Covid in my 40s. Now I'm never going to set the world alight but who cares I enjoy it

[@teresadeardorff6951]

Their sound and harmonies are like honey and heartbreak.

[@rodneycaupp5962]

...My Sweet Lord. OOooo my Lord.

[@14wAYNE]

She is a great songwriter and his playing is sublime. True originals. Huge talent.

[@seanluqpicard]

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the first time hearing Gillian Welch and David Rawlings…The most perfect music to help me through a dark time in my life . Thank you both for the comfort while i needed it most.

[@benmeltzer]

My first time was on the Hell Among The Yearlings tour. I had gone on a recommendation (and because of a fondness for the venue) not ever hearing them before. Can you imagine my (pleasant) surprise?

[@Taped0uT1]

It was such a good healing through a dark time.

[@LutherKrank]

David Rawlings is a guitar god, and god bless the great Gillian Welch, maybe the most underrated duo on earth today, wonderful....

[@nedlambton6602]

Not underrated by anybody who knows their music!

[@stretcherbearer1350]

Dave seems to gracefully get himself out of any bottomless pit musical rabbit hole he's run down with that old Ephiphone.😊

[@thomashermann2785]

Underrated or not dude’s brilliant

[@gerrymarlowe5541]

I doubt they are underrated. They aren't popstars and I bet they are happy with the careers they have had.

[@Craig960]

I just found this song today. Today is a good day.

[@Onionbaron]

May your life be filled with days like this!

[@BossDM-2]

I'm a rocker, and I could always listen to them for hours and hours. They are so very very very good. The songs, the playing, the singing, the presentation. Time has only made them better. It's music at its best.

[@samchaz1965]

Time. The revelator.

[@steven6033]

This may be the best folk song ever written.

[@daviddishman7491]

This is proper music - pure class. Gillians vocals and Davids guitar are stunningly beautiful. They are in a different league to the shit you get in the pop charts. Pardon my French - excusez-moi.

[@greekflatpicker]

Let’s give a hand to the sound engineer too. Excellent sound

[@ryhaang]

Right 👋❤️

[@cool...............]

yeah man. BBC using simple but classic SM57s. Best mic ever.

[@greekflatpicker]

@@cool............... cannot agree more

[@jamescovan8853]

You noticed that too? It stood out from the intro.

[@noahpalmertye]

@@cool............... it’s prob their Mics. They tour with piles of 57s and 58’s. Cause they said they are all a bit different so they roll through em till they find the ones for that room.

[@Margarinethebutterlover]

Back again for a dose of this musical medicine. Just incredible.

[@realisticspeakers]

Once you hear this it remains with you forever.

[@DaStoneboat]

I imagine a very painful time traveling in the Dustbowl, hot, running out of gas, a lifetime drying out, crying inside where darkness reveals.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@DaStoneboat wow

[@lorishu48103]

Barry Nelson you are a poet

[@outlawnightshift2371]

I am SO captivated by Gillian. I simply can't look away............

[@shanegrimm8835]

David Rawlings, nobody can hit all those notes that aren’t supposed to work or be there. I always hang on every note he plays, because each has such feeling.

[@jdubright]

You put it perfectly. I think Kenneth Pattengale is a good spiritual successor.

[@larryc3860]

so true...that man be good, playin' a 50 year old ( probably older ) arch top guitar that has tone for miles.......

[@trudie770]

And those close harmonies he sings. Genius.

[@larryc3860]

@@trudie770 absolutely

[@jamescovan8853]

I just want to take a guess before I Google to see if I'm right, but is he from the milk carton kids?

[@tomnee8631]

I gave up seeing George Thorogood at Jazzfest back in 2007 so that I could listen to Gillian and David perform. It was one of my best decisions ever but my brother and friends didn't see it that way. haha

[@robertnewell5057]

You did the right thing IMO

[@jasoncall3731]

Love me some Lonesome George, but you made the correct choice.

[@sireliot2149]

ba neer nar nnahh nahownt - bad 2 da bone. x200

[@gerrymarlowe5541]

IMHO you have much better taste than your brother and friends, at least in this matter.

[@zanichbug]

I heard that Thorogood was a dinkweed...

[@larrymarks5836]

I can’t stop listening to this…..so hauntingly beautiful

[@tatterdamelion]

One of the most beautiful songs written in the last 100 years. Every time it comes up in my headphones I have to stop and listen to it several times in a row.

[@mitchellbracey5234]

Of all the artists I've listened to over the past forty years, these two have turned out some of the most spellbinding tunes. And they've done it more than a few times. Their work is, IMHO, nestled perfectly within the Americana they so obviously have studied and love. Dave's dissonant jags remind me of NY on electric and Willie's playing when he goes off the rails.

[@NellieFly]

their harmonies are a National Treasure

[@WilliamMGreen]

Tears streamed down my face when I finally got to see/hear they play this live last year here in Lexington, Ky. This guitar solo is as good as guitar gets. Rawlings is transcendent live.

[@giantladytm]

I agree. I would put it in the top 10.

[@DaStoneboat]

I hear it and every time it feels like being dragged through misery, but I can't leave it. I've done something to deserve it.

[@andrewwhite2503]

I was drawn to Gillian Welch (and Dave Rawlings who came along too) by comments made by Sarah Jarosz name-checking her on a Transatlantic Sessions gig. Thanks, Sarah for your great music, and for introducing me to these two.

[@paritroiana1386]

From the very first time we heard them which was almost 20 years ago now, there hasn't been a week that we've not played their songs. We loved seeing them Live. They never disappoint. Top talents!

[@stumckinlay5390]

Almost the same time for me, too… they’re very much one the sounds of falling in love with my wife. ❤

[@rodneycaupp5962]

I am just starting to learn to play their stuff. I'm a 5 finger picker and it takes time, @ "73 and a third/rpm, years of age. Sweet harmony with a growling voice works well here too.

[@harmkuijpers6642]

Probably my favourite version of this song. I was very fortunate to be able to see them twice, once in 2010 as Dave Rawlings Machine and once a year later, just the two of them.

[@jbuntine1255]

5:04 luck you Magnificent 👏 Regards from 🇦🇺 ozz

[@jamesdixon2338]

Every time I revisit the best live performance videos I always find myself here. There are live performances as good as this, but I'm not sure there are live performances better than this.

[@benelki2086]

Well said

[@chrissyb5226]

Nothing beats the original, but check out the cover with Chris Thile and Sarah Jarosz on Live From Here.

[@christophernix5695]

This song speaks to me, so beautiful and tinged with weary regret. The talent just shines from these two like a beacon. This is as good as music ever gets.

[@nikkileigh1585]

They're so talented. I bet seeing them perform in person is phenomenal.

[@bencampbell318]

So hauntingly beautiful, it’s like thousands of years of human collective consciousness went into this song because the perfect dissonances create such an emotional reaction that the words are superfluous, ultimately. One hears the chords and immediately understands that the song is about suffering and not wanting to anymore, ever again.

[@brucekreitzberg7876]

That was nicely written. Lyrically, I think some of the words harken to both great moments and some of their worst, like being called a fake or an imitator just because she chose to play music she was not raised around. I suspect that was painful for her for a while, but she has continued doing what she loves and cares for and millions have enjoyed it. I think she's the bee's knees and David Rawlings is too.

[@mikequinlivan8842]

And that, folks, is why dynamics matter.

[@mfpendle]

Jesus, these two are unbelievely talented

[@jamespass4337]

barely human

[@Greasyheels]

The harmonies, the solo, the melody everything in this song is just perfect. A flawless performance.

[@donshields9999]

Her songs are haunting and beautiful. Gillian is a brilliant songwriter!

[@erikbusse4909]

I am sure David has a ton to do with that too. His guitar play is wizardry.

[@mark1952able]

Her voice is unique! Great stuff!

[@davidryan7386]

these songs are nearly all co-writes.

[@markwilliams3174]

Possibly their best KZbin performance - the venue and the closeness and attentiveness of the audience seems to have had a remarkable impact on the intensity of this amazing song's performance. Dave's solo is a mind blower and Gillian's singing and zen-like rhythm playing is absolutely breathtaking.

[@kerthgersen3163]

"Zen-like". Nice. It shows that perfection is better attained by simplicity than complexity, not to mention the 'beefy' Gibson sound completing the sonic spectrum with David's Epiphone.

[@brucekreitzberg7876]

I agree. I have seen these guys live 4-5 times and watched dozens of their videos on KZbin and I think this BBC 4 production is them at their best as a duo. They seem to have taken it seriously, the lighting is great and of course - it's BBC - the recording and the sound are perfect. Their performance of Jacob Meyer at this show is intense and almost breathtaking.

[@Deemoid76]

​@@brucekreitzberg7876caleb mayer?

[@lyndonmoore4979]

One of the best gospel songs ever beautifully performed

[@psalmer5690]

the most impressive part of this phenomenal performance is Dave's originality on each solo between verses and how he builds them dynamically. Each one is unique, clever, and spectacularly expressive. So very, very hard to pull off. True mastery of the instrument.

[@chetpogostin34]

Rawlings is a master at using dissonance. Studying at the Berklee School of Music is a good reason for his brilliance. Listen to his guitar lines. Nobody plays like he. Positively original style. Hard to be original. But the dissonance is incredible.

[@koho]

His dissonance gets a lot of comments, but more amazing to me is the consistently inventive melodic lines. I think his is even better displayed on, say, Scarlet Town and Tennessee.

[@scrapheapofshame]

its also, as my teacher told me, the spaces between the notes. they are MORE important than the notes themselves.

[@bendummitt888]

@@scrapheapofshame Very true...

[@_MrPink_]

I've invented a new term. I call it "aharmonic" (long A). It's different than true dissonance, and it describes what David does perfectly.

[@leviataen]

well, I mean this a little bit hyperbolic, he is a good guitarist, but what he does here is educated doodling, it cost him two weeks to figure out.

[@James-mr3kw]

I discovered them many years ago- I listened to them as I was running the road for my family and always loved the unique style that they were giving to us that we had never quite heard before- love Gillian and David - hope they continue to rock on for a long time - Ran many miles listening to “ I Dream A Highway Back to You “ Superb Song ‼️

[@karolynmorovati7230]

Darling, remember When you come to me I'm the pretender And not what I'm supposed to be But who could know if I'm a traitor Time's the revelator They caught the katy And left me a mule to ride The fortune lady Came along, she walked beside But every word seemed to date her Time's the revelator The revelator Up in the morning Up and on the ride I drive into Corning And all the spindles whine And every day is getting straighter Time's the revelator The revelator Leaving the valley And fucking out of sight I'll go back to Cali Where I can sleep out every night And watch the waves and move the fader Time's the revelator The revelator Queen of the fakes and imitators Time's the revelator

[@edley47]

Karolyn Morovati Thank you 🙏

[@RstJMusician]

Timeless, classic, and strangely unique...I can’t think of anything that sounds quite like this. Like she’s singing about my own history and then the amazing solos that give you time to really absorb the lyrics.

[@bobbymarks1000]

I loved the music immediately, but it took a few more listens to truly understand. This is the most beautiful song I've heard. Edit: Gillian has true feeling, and David is a true Nortmittmielian... there aren't many left around here, but they're here. And, they love great music.

[@darrylbrown634]

Truly ABnormal duo,incredible and ROCKON!!!!!!!

[@de-is]

what is "Nortmittmielian"? google does not know that word O_o

[@jamespass4337]

“Watch the waves and move the fader.” Best line ever for a sound tech.

[@BlueMHart]

I understood the "fader" line right away, but it just now occurred to me that "watch the waves" can refer to soundwaves as well as ocean waves. Wow! Thanks for quoting this line!

[@stretcherbearer1350]

@@BlueMHart Thanks for the thought, "move the fader" fits in better now.

[@stretcherbearer1350]

@@BlueMHart Thanks for the thought, "move the fader" fits in better now.

[@otisjfarnsworth]

I'm so glad the polite British crowd doesn't feel the need to yell "WOOO!" after (or during) every solo like they do here in the States. Rawlings' harmony is so close to Gillian, it's a mystery how he does it. It doesn't follow any conventional norms of harmony. Brilliant. I saw them live, and they were just this good.

[@smwrbd]

I agree no whoooos are better.

[@sunnyjim1355]

"It doesn't follow any conventional norms of harmony." What? It so does. XD

[@loontil]

I hate the macho, growling YE--UHH!!s of some US audiences. The US is cool, in my books, but I'm not a fan of the YE-UHH!!

[@dick-gs9tb]

Rawlings incorporates a lot of harmonics that are seldomly used in popular music, for instance the 9th (?) on the opening notes of this song. I can see why it would be perceived as "unconventional".

[@tailgate_troubadour]

Saw them live around this time in Durham, NC and the audience was just as respectful. You could hear a pin drop.

[@NancyinNYC]

Are there still beautiful things? Absolutely.

[@PsilliPig]

Just superb. I'm so glad I lived during this time of so much good music by people who have deep respect and affinity for this kind of engagement with the past and present.

[@jesshumphries3745]

Come back to this every 6 months - this is rock n roll on two acoustic instruments!!!!

[@Josh-sx7ir]

the more I listen to these two, the more I realise how truly punk the spirit of their music is

[@nedlambton6602]

Yes but also psychedelic heavy metal!

[@rodneycaupp5962]

Punk..., Gillian ? Yes that too. With John the Revelator on vacation, These two made "Time the Revelator". Thats punk !

[@rodneycaupp5962]

@@nedlambton6602 I never saw that coming. Thank you Ned... I think I will smoke up my DYM85 -Yairi. My Sony cans know what you are saying .. "Psycho Active , and very heavy Metal

[@celenabarclay1488]

No doubt! Raw and unpretentious, like true punk. Real and vulnerable!

[@swinsworth]

This gets me every time. It's amazing. Musical genius. ❤

[@markholter5687]

this is a stunning song and a sublimely stunning performance. My god.

[@baldkea]

Simply sublime. Must be in the top ten ever-recorded live performances

[@radkid06]

This is what music should be all about. Brilliant performance and song.

[@DJSOUTHSTAR]

what a spectacular version ..Dave's picking is off the charts and Gillian WOW!!!!

[@erikbusse4909]

These two are just sick. This stuff is for real whatever genre of music you like.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

So sick they make me puke and get sick again

[@davidlowney634]

What the fuck does ''sick" mean?

[@davidlowney634]

@Patricia Louise What if your dog or cat or child was sick, would that be "really cool"? This doesn't make logical sense. Maybe I'm just old

[@MrBeepbeep11]

@@davidlowney634 I guess you're on the same wave length as Spock - he would always reply to Captain Kirk, "That's illogical" about any 'sayings' he couldn't understand. Here's the skinny - Words are turned on their heads by the young, and end up with the opposite meaning. Or, sometimes it's by locale. That's what happened to the word "sick." The word "wicked" means evil, but here in the greater Boston area, it's means real good or real cool...,as in "That clam chowdah was wicked good." I'm old too, so I won't say - OK Boomer................OK Boomer?

[@davidlowney634]

@Patricia Louise Come to Grey Fox

[@sebastiansullivan4770]

Such a beautiful, soulful performance

[@geoffbreen2386]

Amazing. This is dated BBC in 2007, and I've only recently discovered Gillian and this song. Heard an interview on Double J where she describes the joy of realising she could actually write songs. A gifted lady.

[@thomashermann2785]

When she’s locked in her gaze looks like she sees things nobody else can

[@AndreaWestlake306]

I could look into her face and listen to her all day long. Beautiful and beyond.

[@thomashermann2785]

@@AndreaWestlake306 me too!

[@igsb1999]

She's a hypnotizing woman, beyond the talent one of a kind.

[@thomashermann2785]

@@igsb1999 yes she is. Mersmerizing!

[@1pspaddicted1]

O M G AMAZING!!!! I could listen to them 24/7

[@jimsy5530]

2007, I've watched this entire session hundreds of times by now, and I still have no idea how they do this live.... It's just brilliant, I'm so in awe of Rawling's guitar playing. He's doing such complex stuff, and only flubs one or two notes in the whole piece. Just amazing.

[@aaronm8694]

I think I've watched every uploaded video of this arrangement and this one is the best. Rawlins is perfect throughout, stunning at the finale and Welch is at her very best all the way through.What a duo! What a piece! What a treat it must be to have seen this live. Blessed are all of you have been there to absorb it!!!!

[@ostrodmit]

Dave's solo in this performance is full of amazing improvised bits, like the looping thing on 2:12, or an arpeggio on 3:59. My favorite version of the tune...

[@jnairac]

2022 still back.. Classic one ...and her voice .. Never remake this Gem.. Just cherish

[@enzogarcia1028]

The way David Rawlings moves when he plays reminds of the way Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids moves when plays

[@CurrentInnovations]

Agreed, I bet Pattengale would cite Rawlings as a significant influence. Their styles are so similar.

[@psalmer5690]

Rawlins was a huge influence, obviously.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Have not heard them in sometime. This was over the top! David Rawlings!

[@H3avyHaul3r]

beautiful...no wonder this song is on my fav list...

[@jeffgaumond4250]

Unbelievable acoustic guitar solo, really transcendent.

[@nimrod2550]

I literally heard of these two an hour ago following a link to Ryan Adams album Gold, on which Gillian co-wrote the excellent Enemy Fire. Man, do I have some catching up to do! Absolutely breathtaking, the songs I've heard so far.

[@nicolaperfetti8458]

What a great performance. Great combination

[@nottsure5160]

I well up everytime I hear this song. It's so damn moving.

[@hodgi7149]

The tone he gets out of that prewar arch top is unreal. Super performance. Harmony, songwriting, everything. All I keep looking at is that guitar.

[@michaelramey4379]

I'm sorry but I can't quit listening to this and how did I miss this great music for so long

[@traceymoore291]

Outstanding.

[@mintybadger6905]

These two are amazing to watch live - they start to really get into what they’re doing about midway through their concerts and that’s when they magic is made. Each performance feels unique - they add little twists and flourishes to the melodies.

[@jamesd7527]

Dave looked sooooo different back then!!! I'll never forget the first time I saw him play - was at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC and my jaw dropped and stayed dropped while I watched him shred that ole geeeeetarrrrr!!! Love these guys!!!

[@beachdog67]

No matter how many times I find myself back with it again, this song never gets old or feels stale. And this is, by far, one of the best performances I have had the privilege to hear.

[@beachdog67]

And here I am again, a year later. And the words that came to mind this afternoon were: "They never fail to amaze."

[@ronwood1411]

The St LUke's show is a gem. BBC....did PRO aud/vid and Revelator is.......EPIC. Gilly lays down a perfect foundation so Dave can wrestle sounds out of that old Epiphone that Guitars usualy keep secret. Really..SPECIAL stuff

[@jerryshunk7152]

He seems to strangle the beauty from it!

[@mark1952able]

Ron Wood; AGREE

[@makemeateeshirt]

Ye could never tire of this...I always hear medieval type lute vibes in Rawlings playing...he's an amazing guitarist and well matched by the ballad like story telling tones of Welch

[@jamesbranzei7016]

I Love this video an this song so much it almost brings tears to my eyes.I wouldn’t admit it if it did.

[@ronniedio19422010]

Just in case... Darling remember when you come to me I'm the pretender and not what I'm suppose to be But who could know if I'm a traitor? Time's the revelator . They caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride. The fortune lady came along and she walked beside And every word seemed to date her Time's the revelator, the revelator . Up in the morning, up and on the line Drive into Corning, and all the spindles whine And every day is getting straighter Time's the revelator, the revelator . Leaving the valley, fucking out of sight I'll go back to Cali where I can sleep out every night And watch the waves and move the fader Time's the revelator, the revelator . Queen of fakes and imitators Time's the revelator.

[@MrMooserwirt]

This is truly fantastic - spine-tingling stuff.

[@bizzaaach]

This is one of the greatest performances of all time, as well as one of the greatest songs ever.

[@durwoodball4062]

A breathtaking song and performance. These two are the best.

[@pauljohnston8981]

screamingly brilliant

[@marksasahara1115]

My buddy Bill turned me on to Gillian Welch and I'm very thankful! We went with some friends to Higher Ground, a club in Winooski, VT and they were amazing. "Fucking out of sight".

[@Axis_Of_Evil]

While I do enjoy the studio version of this song , this is the best version by far... Powerful stuff...

[@kerthgersen3163]

INterestingly, almost all the live versions are better than the studio version, which, while flawless, seems passionless by comparison.

[@valentinabarbatelli2724]

haunting....stunning.... beautiful....

[@edwardmcguigan1442]

This is sublime saw that concert on bbc gobsmacked

[@mooskamoo]

The title track of their best album played in their prime, wow!

[@benjobluemusic]

I love it when Mr. Rawlings goes off the deep end :)

[@livelongenoughtoliveforeve1114]

Chris thile brought me here - I am new to this genre but this particular song sounds like one of the best of its kind.

[@donaldwood1731]

What a wonderful song so well presented David you have a gift and a heart it shows in your playing Thank you from Nova Scotia Canada

[@l214laus]

Just gives me goosebumps watching and listening to this. Yay, they are touring here in Feb 2016. Thank you for the video.

[@FeelsFlows]

God Bless America, God Bless the world, God bless us, God Bless Music, God Bless Gillian Welch and co.

[@1patman623]

An American treasure, these two.

[@gregjones3671]

Sublime. Rollins’ guitar virtuosity-a signature like no other.

[@marks814]

Who built this man's guitar? Body is shaped like a cello and the sound blends with that instrument. This is beauty! I found it: 1935 Epiphone Olympic

[@johnkeith2450]

And thanks to his talent the price of them has doubled.

[@bigal6684]

David Rawlings' dissonant notes on THAT guitar sound so sad and so perfectly right. I was afraid he might break it for a minute.

[@rejeanbeauchamp6126]

Un duo en parfaite harmonie ! Ce gars est génial sur la guitare.

[@Finn178]

Absolutely sublime.

[@pataleno]

The sound from that 1935 Epiphone Olympic Archtop is incredible. Dave is a guitar legend.

[@carlyork6024]

Dude bends time and space w that thing

[@thecharlesfoley]

I love her so much! Every night when I play live, this song is in my setlist.

[@davepearsonguitar6148]

Post a cover!

[@floydcassista1577]

One of the many highlights in life was doing work for them.

[@johnperry-nx3gl]

Hypnotic.

[@JVinnieify]

this song is nothing short of a masterpiece