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Setlist

Goin' Down The Road (Woody Guthrie cover)
The Weekend
The Trip
Candy
Wayside/Back In Time (Gillian Welch song)
To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) (Ryan Adams cover)
Bodysnatchers
Keep It Clean (Charley Jordan cover)
Bells of Harlem
Its Too Easy

Intermission
Ruby
The Last Pharaoh
He Will Set Your Fields on Fire (Bill Monroe cover)
Sweet Tooth
Short Haired Woman Blues
Don't Go Chasing Wild Ponies
Stewball (traditional)
Pilgrim You Can't Go Home
Queen Jane Approximately (Bob Dylan cover)
— Encore —
Method Acting (Bright Eyes cover)
Cortez The Killer (Neil Young cover)
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby (traditional)
— Encore II —
The Weight (The Band cover)

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Dave Rawlings Machine will be stopping by the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul on Thursday, October 29th, as part of his tour for his second album Nashville Obsolete (however it is the 7th studio
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Dave Rawlings Machine just headlined the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul on Thursday, October 29, 2015.

This is just a quick post to get some basic information, tour dates, photos, and setlist online, as soon as possible.

With no opening musical act, the band took advantage of this by playing a double set consisting of tracks from their two albums (A Friend of a Friend and Nashville Obsolete). Filling out the rest of their set were plenty of cover songs – particularly near their end of their set and double encores.

Dave Rawlings Machine

Both Dave Rawlings, and his longtime musical partner Gillian Welch, have worked with everyone in the industry from Tom Petty to Ryan Adams to Old Crow Medicine Show to Bright Eyes…. the latter they covered "Method Acting" and dedicated to singer Conor Oberst for a speedy recovery (he was recently hospitalized and was forced to cancel his remaining tour).

Dave Rawlings Machine's set changes from night to night, making it a challenge to predict what songs they will play. The band seems to go wherever the road leads them (the theme of their recent song and video for "The Weekend"). In fact, just a minute before the show, they had no idea they were going to open with a cover of Woody Guthrie's "Goin' Down The Road".

Typical of Americana/Bluegrass/Mountain Folk shows, the band cycled through fiddles, banjos, mandolins (strangely the musical saw was missing). The fans were very respectful and restrained, except for certain cover songs (such as Bill Monroe's "He Will Set Your Fields on Fire") which inspired foot-stopping and loud cheers and claps.

Dave Rawlings Machine's Nashville Obsolete is out now on Acony Records.

More details later…

Tour dates:

10/31 Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre

11/01 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music

11/02 Cleveland, OH @ Music Box Supper

11/04 Pittsburgh, PA @ Byham Theatre

11/05 Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall

11/06 Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre

11/07 Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre The Egg

11/09 Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre

11/11 New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre

11/12 S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground

11/13 Portland, ME @ State Theatre

11/14 Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak

11/16 Boston, MA @ The Wilbur Theatre

11/17 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

11/19 Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre

11/20 Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater

11/21 Richmond, VA @ The National

11/22 Durham, NC @ Performing Arts Ctr

11/24 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

11/25 Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre

12/26 Chattanooga, TN @ Tivoli Theatre

12/27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse

12/28 Birmingham, AL @ Iron City Music Hall

12/29 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

01/05 Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall

01/07 Houston, TX @ Cullen Performance

01/08 Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre

01/09 Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre

01/11 Albuquerque, NM @ National Hispanic

01/12 Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theater

01/13 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

01/14 Scottsdale, AZ @ Scottsdale Center

01/16 Los Angeles, CA @ Ace Hotel