After nearly a decade since her last solo album, Gillian Welch and her lifelong collaborator David Rawlings returned in 2020 with the Grammy-winning covers album “All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone)”–the first album officially credited to both of them–and four years later, they returned with their first joint album of original music, “Woodland”. Often times, “Woodland” fills the room with nothing more than the warmth of their acoustic guitars and voices. Other times, gorgeous strings and some light drumming help flesh things out. Throughout it at all, Gillian and David deliver a collection of folk songs as remarkable as anything on their timeless classics like “Time (The Revelator)” and “Soul Journey“. Coming off an album on which some of the material was written over a hundred years ago, the original music of “Woodland” captures a similar feeling, sounding like the past and the future all at once.
Almost three decades after their first, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings make a record that takes what they’ve learned in song writing, what they’ve listened to, and a bit of life experience too, and turns it all into an album of many, many highs.
released August 23rd, 2024
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