Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Friday 31 January 2025 (Night 4)

Recorded by eckythump, mastered by Mixmaster Jones

Source: Nokia Lumia 930 (called Lumia Icon in North America) w/built-in HAAC mics > Audio Recorder Pro app > 16bit/44.1 KHz PCM/WAV

Track List:

Set 1:
01 - Introduction
02 - Orphan Girl
03 - The Monkey and the Engineer
04 - Empty Trainload Of Sky
05 - Cumberland Gap
06 - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
07 - Howdy Howdy
08 - Wayside / Back In Time
09 - The Princess & The Raven
10 - Ruby
11 - The Way It Goes

Set 2:
12 - Lawman
13 - What We Had
14 - Hard Times
15 - Hashtag
16 - The Day The Mississippi Died
17 - Lazarus
18 - Everything Is Free
19 - Red Clay Halo
encore
20 - Look At Miss Ohio
21 - I'll Fly Away
encore
22 - Midnight Bones
23 - Revelator
encore
24 - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby
25 - Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly and the Crickets cover)
26 - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover)

with Paul Kowert on double bass on select songs

Show Notes: Night 4 of the Gillian and Dave love fest in Melbourne, and a Friday night crowd, many of whom had clearly been to at least 1 prior show were up for a party. All 4 shows I attended were brilliant, but this had something that elevated the show to the next level and was my favourite of all the nights. A crowd that was really revved up were treated to some real rarities tonight, including what is presumably a new song, currently unreleased called The Princess and the Raven, only having been played once before according to Setlist FM. Tonight's performance of Lazarus was the best one yet, Dave really finding his voice, and that guitar solo is mesmerising - it may be unreleased but the audience reacted like it was a classic that'd been in the set for years. Then we get to the encore - 3 more of them, this time with the never before played cover of Buddy Holly and the Crickets' Not Fade Away, then a sublime cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit to end the show. It was an incredible night of music. Thank you Gillian and Dave (and Paul) for 4 nights of amazing music. I wish I'd attended night 5 as well, but sometimes you can't do it all!

Recording Notes: This was my most troublesome recording. Mid way through The Princess and the Raven a mic rustle noise began and didn't stop for the rest of the recording. I was really annoyed thinking it was something I was doing in my seat, however upon closer inspection of the file it turns out the right channel microphone developed an issue, and the left channel was completely fine. So my friend Matt took the left channel and created a fake stereo mix. It now sounds 100% better than it did, free of all the mic rustle noise that plagued the recording and made the second set almost unlistenable. As a result of needing to create a fake stereo mix this is the "worst" of my 4 recordings, but it still sounds perfectly decent, and with some real rarities in the set, and my favourite show out of the four I attended, this is a great one to listen to. Enjoy!

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