Here we are catching up on big names in this post-holiday period, and we are just not going to say anything about Gillian Welch and David Rawlings other than that for more years than we care to recall they have pretty much defined a strand of this splintered through a prism genre we call Americana.
This latest song from their new album ‘WOODLAND’ has a really classic feel to it, and with aching strings and ironic reflections holds to a set of values which are perhaps (whisper it) a bit more important than the everyday of electronic media and likes and such – lovely and useful as all those things are they pale against open vistas, organically driven music making and friendships.
Said Welch about the new song: “We wrote Hashtag for Guy Clark. Guy taught us what it was like on the road. He took us out opening for him all over the states, to our first shows in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and South Carolina. He showed us the parallel universe of the troubadour.”
The news may have been trailed by social media for a few days but it has now been revealed that Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will release their 10th studio album, “Woodland”, via their Acony Records label on 23rd August 2024. The 10-song collection is a mix of full band…
So, the end of another very sad week for music with news that for me the best venue in the country, The Deaf Institute in Manchester, will never be reopening its doors - more than ever, please do go and support the Save Our Venues campaign. In the meantime, we…
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are one of a number of artists who feature on Barry Gibb's forthcoming country/roots album 'Greenfields', which is produced by Dave Cobb - you can hear them on this track 'Butterfly' from that record, a song which was first released on the 1970 Bee Gees…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?