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  • Gillian Welch Returns with the Album of the Year by Derk Richardson Feb. 2012 from Acoustic Guitar

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    • December 11, 2011
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    WHEN GILLIAN WELCH ISSUED her fifth album,The Harrow and the Harvest, in June 2011, eight years had passed since the release of its predecessor. As is the case with every album, starting with her 1996 debut, Revival, Welch gets singular billi...

  • Music Legend Gillian Welch Puts Down "Roots" on GDLA

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    • October 22, 2011
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    Los Angeles - If you love roots or alt-country music, there's no one bigger than Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. They just released a new album and are on tour now.
    Check out the video for our interview with Gillian and David... plus, a special in-s...

  • Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: Two Voices, 10 Kinds of Sad

    • Posted by MattWales
    • September 11, 2011
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  • The Fresh Air Interview: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

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    • July 19, 2011
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    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' long-awaited collaboration The Harrow and the Harvest came out in June, marking an almost eight-year wait for fans of their 2003 album Soul Journey.  The 10 songs that make up the new album deal with some heavy su...

  • THE GHOSTLY ONES by Alec Wilkinson from The New Yorker

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    • July 10, 2011
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    David Rawlings told me Gillian Welch’s life story. She had grown tired of telling it herself. Welch is a singer and songwriter whose music is not easily classified—it is at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms&mdash...