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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Woodland

Acony Records is proud to present Woodland, the new album by the preeminent songwriting team Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Following up their homespun GRAMMY-winning release All The Good Times, this ambitious 10 song album mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo's signature sound and remarkable lyricism. Woodland was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Welch and Rawlings' own Woodland Sound Studio (newly rebuilt after the 2020 tornado) and cements the duo's iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Sitting nicely in the middle ground between country music and rock and roll, with Welch's evocative vocals perfectly sitting alongside Rawlings' melodic drawl. Upbeat, skilful and wonderfully warming.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Empty Trainload Of Sky
2. What We Had
3. Lawman
4. The Bells And The Birds
5. North Country

Side B
1. Hashtag
2. The Day The Mississippi Died
3. Turf The Gambler
4. Here Stands A Woman
5. Howdy Howdy

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

All The Good Times

“ The 10-song collection is the equivalent of being welcomed into Welch and Rawlings’ living room and the pair treating you to a private recital. In other words, it doesn’t get much better than this.” - Uncut Magazine
“... modern masters of American folk.” – Pitchfork

After a devastating tornado ravaged Nashville in the Spring of 2020 making their studio unusable, immediately followed by a global pandemic shutting down their community and touring livelihood, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings were able to find the inspiration to set up recording equipment in their home living room and record 10 performances on their reel-to-reel of some of their favourite songs from the likes of John Prine (“Hello In There”), Bob Dylan (“Abandoned Love”), Norman Blake (“Ginseng Sullivan”), and more.

All The Good Times is the first Welch/Rawlings collaboration to feature both of their names on the cover, and received a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. Originally released in July 2020 as a surprise treat for fans, the limited edition handmade CD and LP first pressings sold out in 48 hours as a D2C exclusive.

This new reissue will have revised art and packaging, including some new photos. The vinyl (coming later this year) will have new artwork on a tip-on jacket with custom paper. 

Gillian Welch

Soul Journey

To surpass 2001's brilliant "Time (The Revelator)" Gillian Welch has had to pull out all the stops for her new studio album "Soul Journey". The resulting ten tracks are amongst the finest acoustic music of 2003 with Welch's plaintive, emotional singing and deep felt beliefs impacting on the listener on many levels. It's music that brings a tear to the eye and a lump to the throat and its simple beauty will warm your soul.

Writing and performing with her longtime partner, David Rawlings, they present their haunting songs like rock and roll chamber music, with two acoustic guitars and two voices welded together. Their tunes have been covered by such American legends as Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Solomon Burke. Their music defies easy categorization - it embraces, and is in turn embraced by, the pre-eminent ambassadors of folk, bluegrass, R & B, punk, and rock and roll.

'The Harrow & The Harvest', “is a new Southern sound,” writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, “with the sort of songs you wouldn’t be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia; Songs you’d expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening. Songs with the wry humour of the back porch. Listen to this record with the lights low. Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.”

Uncut Magazine’s ‘Album of the Month’ review calls ‘The Harrow & The Harvest’ a "timeless country classic, this is Welch's most ruggedly traditional work yet." And closes by lamenting, "The only thing wrong with a Gillian Welch album is that she makes so damn few of them.”


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