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.”
