# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-rawlings
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:21.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-rawlings"
name: "David Rawlings"
slug: "david-rawlings"
description: "David Todd Rawlings is an American guitarist, singer, and record producer. He is known for his musical partnership with singer and songwriter Gillian Welch. He and Welch were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 91st Academy Awards for \"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings\" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. In 2020, Welch and Rawlings released All the Good Times , which won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. In 2024, Welch and Rawlings released Woodland, which won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, currently making Welch and Rawlings the only duo to win the award more than once."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gillian_Welch_David_Rawlings_at_Town_Hall-01-2007-05-29.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1969-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.770352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thedaverawlings"
    handle:    "thedaverawlings"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1062848/"
    handle:    "nm1062848"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://davidrawlingsmusic.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديڤيد راولينجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
    title: "David Rawlings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B7%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Ролингз, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rawlings"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3019ab78-2968-4141-9eab-521e16b877dd"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "David Rawlings"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump