David Rawlings has been especially prolific of late, fronting Dave Rawlings Machine and working with longtime partner Gillian Welch on Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, a collection of outtakes, demos and alternative tracks from her acclaimed 1996 album Revival. Here, Rawlings opts for solo billing with the humble yet earnest Poor David’s Almanack. Similar in sound to Nashville Obsolete, the 2015 opus effort recorded under his Machine banner, the new album features Rawlings’ usual cast of collaborators—Welch, Willie Watson, Punch Brothers’ Paul Kowert, Crooked Still’s Brittany Haas, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Dawes’ Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith—creating a sound that’s similarly stripped-down in style. Those unaware might mistake it for a collection of traditional folk tunes repurposed as modern musings, and indeed, Rawlings’ penchant for making music of a vintage variety is evident throughout. Fiddles and guitars are prominent in the mix, and the sound of a saw on the lazy, loping “Yup” adds to the imagery of its backwoods banter. The yearning yet tender “Airplane” and the rousing, gospel-sounding “Good God a Woman,” a rambling “Midnight Train” and the rugged “Cumberland Gap” make for immediate standouts, but the sobering sentiments of “Guitar Man,” “Put ‘Em Up Solid” and “Come on Over My House” are affecting additives as well. Here again, Poor David’s Almanack affirms the fact that Rawlings and Welch are two of today’s most influential Americana artists.