Yes, and several if not most of these Vol 2 songs are about frustrations and resources of well-tended, too-well guarded thoughts and feelings, incl. might mess up the other person if you did disclose/share, also yourself if you failed, but also the price of seeming like you don't need him---anyway, it works, backstory in Stone and elsewhere, yeah---- the also fine Boots No. 1, from sessions that first yielded Revival, is also on bandcamp, along with all original releases and that recent quarantine bedsit set of covers:https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/music
― dow, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Sorry, I meant to post that on What Are You Listening To?, thought you and I were on there! I had just posted about this set there. Anyway, yeah, all of her stuff is on bandcamp, or just about.
― dow, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
I’d love to see a comp of stray tracks, soundtrack stufff, etc. Their version of “Dreadful Wind & Rain” is killer, and largely unavailable. Other things like “Ride, Ride” would fit nicely alongside.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
These lost songs collections are astounding. Imagine having a song as good as Picasso lying about the place?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
yeah, crazy that both of them pretty much feel like classic albums — and crazier still that there's still one more on the way!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and it's not like with Dylan, where so much good-to-great stuff was fairly well-known and available for so long before The Bootleg Series, also, in terms of out-of-the-blue news, as I said, we're not getting them on a Neil Young/Arthur Russell/Patrick Cowley timescale, so this is ideal.
― dow, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
aargh volume 3 is up next, the preview track "Peace in the Valley" is an original rather than the standard, one of her songs of clear-eyed doom which nobody else can touch. Unbelievable it just sat on a tape for two decades.
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 30 October 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
still holding out for a welch recording of "you just don't love me"... only one i know is heather waters and apparently that's only available on deezer (!!!)
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 30 October 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
Finally getting to Volume 2. Damn it’s so good. She was mining an endless seam of beautiful tunes.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 1 November 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Biggish NYT profile piece here:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/magazine/gillian-welch-david-rawlings.html
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
Vol. 3 is up today: https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/First listen: first track rides me out of the gate, second straight ahead, number three is stone cold showstopper, throws me into the Kurt Weillian arms of four, five curls me into a delta pallet, but then--well there are several that seem most like vehicles, mainly handy for just the right simple-subtle goosebump performance, yknow that's all it would take, predictable in their way, but handy for sure, and could also imagine buckskin Neil Young bringing out more of the strummy drama of "If I Ain't Goin' To Heaven" and "Peace In The Valley"--but there are also more stone colds crying out to be covered---not strictly necessary, but nice to oblige them by imagining, say, xpost Willie again on "Strangers Again," him and/or Toby Keith, Eric Church on "The Cowboy Rides Away," and the Everly Brothers must come back for "There's a First Time For Everything" and omg "The Streets of St. Paul." Bold souls will find a way to the disconcerting, possibly post-gospel "Put Your Foot Upon The Path: "You may live another day, you may never laugh again.""One Little Song" seems like the perfect nightcap lullaby send-off for the whole thing, which will (via her site only) be a box set, vinyl + your choice of MP3, WAV, or FLAC---real purty but the CD version is $30.00 cheaper and I don't have a record player. Though of course bandcamp has all the digital options for each vol., no CDs sold sep., however.
― dow, Saturday, 14 November 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
Plenty of momentum in this set, not that there wasn't in the first two, but maybe a sense of being in the homestretch, that they've gotten used to doing all this, know it's all gonna be alright.
― dow, Saturday, 14 November 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
This isn't bad at all, but I don't really get as much of a thrill from it. A few of those songs where I feel she's too-obviously putting on a character, asking god for redemption or whatever, which doesn't come across as sincerely as others do.Also - two previously released songs ("Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor", which is traditional anyway, and "One Little Song") and "Streets of St Paul" is obviously an early version of "Wrecking Ball".
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
We are so happy to announce our upcoming reissue of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' All The Good Times on CD.
Previously released in limited handmade editions available only from our webstore, the new version of the CD will be available everywhere on March 5th, 2021.
The first Gillian Welch / David Rawlings collaboration to feature both of their names, All The Good Times is a collection of 10 acoustic covers and has received a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Folk Album.
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, Welch and 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 favorite songs from the likes of John Prine (“Hello In There”), Bob Dylan (“Abandoned Love”), Norman Blake (“Ginseng Sullivan”), and more.A vinyl reissue is coming later this year - more details to come!
― dow, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:20 (three years ago) link
didn't know anybody still uses reel-to-reel---advantages?
― dow, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TQonl6exhNU/maxresdefault.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link
Advantage - those amazing 70s memories taping music off the radio. Otherwise shrug
― that's not my post, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
Tape loops
― Maltrsnapper, Friday, 22 January 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
Congratulations to Gillian Welch & David Rawlings for winning Best Folk Album at the 63rd annual GRAMMY awards last night for All The Good Times!
All The Good Times is now available on compact disc worldwide, as well as on streaming and digital download services.
A vinyl reissue is coming later this year - more details to come!Why this and not Boots 02? Maybe the latter was rec. too long ago or some other Grammys rules/logic
― dow, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
It's been a while since anyone said it so: the Boots series is just extraordinary.
This is probably challopsy but I've had a few so: the thing that eventually makes me turn Welch off is Rawlings: his tone is rich and beautiful but his runs can get a bit samey and busy. I'll get my coat.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 21 May 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
Co-sign the love for the Boots series. It’s an interesting compare / contrast with Miranda Lambert’s Marfa Tapes. But also love Rawlings guitar work…
― that's not my post, Saturday, 22 May 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/gillian-welch-time-the-revelator-1203615/
― that's not my post, Saturday, 31 July 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
It's highs are not as high as Time (The Revelator), but Harrow and the Harvest has been like a slow burn for the past 12 years or whatever since it came out, just slowly but perpetually rising in my esteem and my heart. I go back and forth on whether I can say it's my favorite.
Anyway, I was just listening to "Hard Times" and searching to see if "we're supping on tears, we're supping on wine" was their own construction. It is, I think, but I was pleased to see that it is an allusion to the original "Hard Times" (Come Again No More), which features the line
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,While we all sup sorrow with the poor
Nice little Easter egg, made me smile.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 21 March 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
Also, as incredible as the Boots comps are and as gorgeous as their covers can be, I would really love to hear some new original music from these folks!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 21 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Harrow & Harvest was just rereleased on vinyl after selling for $$ on discogs for a while.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 21 March 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
Listened to Soul Journey for the first time last night and I liked it more than expected. The cover and title aren’t very compelling, but it’s pretty good.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 21 March 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
Don't sleep on Poor David's Almanack from a few years back. It's credited to Rawlings, but there are several co-writes with Welch and she sings and plays on it as well.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 21 March 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the endorsement. There are a few songs I love dearly from his first couple but as full albums they are a clear cut below the ones in her name. Can't remember if I ever gave that new(er) one a listen though.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 21 March 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
Xpost Hard Times. There’s a great fan-made video set against clips of Paper Moon.
And it’s worth hearing Chris Thile’s super fast version on mandolin. I prefer Gillian’s version but ymmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiija5dBBIw
― that's not my post, Monday, 21 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Last night's spangles and yesterday's pearlsAre the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Friday, 28 April 2023 06:54 (one year ago) link
OTM
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 April 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
(maaaan)Anybody jonesing for Gillian and Dave should check out Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert:https://kanegellert.bandcamp.com/album/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-spring
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3960809645_16.jpg
― dow, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 01:35 (nine months ago) link
This is superb, thank you dow. Love the art, too.
― Indexed, Thursday, 10 August 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
You're welcome! I like the art on the Bandcamp page too. This is something I just came across on there, still need to check the two previous duet albs they've posted. Every time I listen, it hits me a little harder, in that-low key way.
― dow, Friday, 11 August 2023 02:03 (nine months ago) link
What the folk https://store.aconyrecords.com/products/the-harrow-the-harvest-reel-to-reel/
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:33 (eight months ago) link
“Oh cool, I’ll pay $75 for thaWHAAAAAAAAAAA
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 18 September 2023 19:40 (eight months ago) link
You underrate the value of the deluxe slipcase and custom tape boxes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:41 (eight months ago) link
All I wanted was Revelator on vinyl.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 18 September 2023 21:05 (eight months ago) link
Red Clay Halo is just the best
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 December 2023 16:01 (five months ago) link
They're still alive! Newport Folk Festival, July 27th (sold out already)
http://gillianwelch.com/tour/
― StanM, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:44 (three months ago) link
! Moar dates please
― that's not my post, Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:53 (three months ago) link