As for the red dirt, I took that as referring to the red dirt of Oklahoma and those kind areas. In that country the dirt really is red so what you've got, in my opinion, is a song about the insecurities of the poor country person toward the city tempered with a sense of defiance as though she's trying to stake a claim that her life is good enough and has value as is.
― Kevin Stahnke, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― david h, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Casey McAllister, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Welch drifts _inexplicably_ into Steve Miller's "Quicksilver Girl" - itself as much of a virtual "folk song" as anything here."
It's not inexplicable; the lyrics set it up. "Quicksilver Girl" is the song the narrator is listening to while she's losing her virginity.
"Then there's "Red Clay Halo" the only song here whose lyrics have turned up on Welch websites, all about a poor lass who can't get a guy as she has to walk through red clay (why?) to attend the dance. Her gown will only become golden in the afterlife with a red clay halo around her head. This is not comfy Opry fare. "
Well, not exactly. First, it's about a lad, not a lass. "Well the girls all dance with the boys from the city, and they don't care to dance with me." It's about poverty, and a bittersweet fantasy about a heaven for the poor, where those who lived in the dirt have halos and wings made of dirt. As for comfy Opry fare...this song, written by Welch and Rawlings, was originally recorded in 1998 by the Nashville Bluegrass Band. It's a very traditional bluegrass song; poverty, squalor, and sadness are the oldest themes in country and bluegrass music, and have always and will always feature prominently on the Opry. Just a question, and not as pointed as it might appear: Have you ever listened to the Opry? It's easy to imagine what it's like if you haven't, but try listening to it some Saturday on the web. Welch and Rawlings have performed on the Opry a few times, themselves.
"The Opry audience whoops its approval of Rawlings' Scotty Moore licks in the middle. It's only when you realise that the track is extracted from the artfully engineered film "Down from the Mountain" that you understand that the audience is one which has seen "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" So they're all conspiring."
Well, this wasn't performed at the Opry. It was performed at the Ryman Auditorium, which is one of many former homes of the Opry; the Opry is now based, and has been for a long time, at The Grand Ole Opry House in the Disney-like Opryland complex, next to a terrifyingly gigantic shopping mall and chateau-like hotel. It's true that this cut is extracted from the "Down From the Mountain" concert, but it's not true that the audience has seen "O Brother"; the film was still in post-production at the time of the "Down From the Mountain" concert. The concert was simply a gathering of very earnest, straightforward musicians playing very earnest, straightforward music. If there is a hollywood sheen to the film of the concert, it's because the film was made by veteran showbiz documentary filmmakers...the same folks who filmed the Monterery Pop Fest, as well as Bowie's Spiders film and Depeche Mode's 101. Also, audiences whooping approval of guitar/mandolin/dobro/banjo/whatever solos is a bluegrass convention. It's just what's done at bluegrass concerts. I saw Welch and Rawlings recently in Nashville; Rawlings solo'd on every song, and received enthusiastic applause after every solo. He's a damn good guitar player, and deserves every clap. It's not conspiracy, or rebellion. It's all very conventional, traditional, and honest.
The impetus and meaning, incidentally, for "I Want to Sing that Rock N Roll, are here: "The song stems from comments made by Carter Stanley on a live album during the late-'50s' country-music slump, when rock and roll overshadowed everything else." http://www.thestranger.com/2001-12-06/guide2.html
The above link provides an overall excellent historical and interpretational view of this record.
"After that, a meditation on the consequences of wanting to sing that rock and roll. "Elvis Presley Blues." In the chorus it's unclear whether Welch is singing "I was thinking that night about Elvis - the day that he died" or "did he die?" She ponders his sexuality - "he grabbed his wand in the other hand and shook it like a hurricane ... and he shook it like a holy roller with his soul at stake." At the end of his life, "in long decline" he thinks "how happy John Henry was ... beating his steam drill and he dropped down dead." Welch climaxes with a murmured "bless my soul, what's wrong with me?" A tribute which Freddie Starr will never sing."
I kind of like your sexual interpretation here, but I'm afraid it's groundless. Although sexuality does play in here, it's not the point of the song. First, he's "Grabbing ONE in the other hand," not his wand; she's talking about the fusion of racial musical genres; black R&B with white country music. And John Henry is not "Beating his steam drill"...he did, however, defeat ("beat") a steam drill in a race to build a railroad, after which John Henry fell down dead. This is also the source of the lyric, "Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand." For more on John Henry, look here: http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/
"Bless my soul, what's wrong with me" is a brilliantly truncated extract from the Elvis track, "I'm all shook up." The entire lyric, which Welch has added to the song in live performance, is "Bless my soul, what's wrong with me/ I'm itchin like a bear on a fuzzy tree."
"It says fuck you far more fervently than Eminem taking the piss out of Steve Berman. "
Now THAT I can agree with!
"This is popular music which defies the undertaking. This is miles ahead. "
Thing is, though, this isn't popular music. It's pretty underground, by most American standard. The only Gillian you'll really hear on the radio is "I'll Fly Away" from the O Brother soundtrack. This music is miles and miles and miles behind, and miles ahead, and right on time. It overlaps old-time music with Woody Guthrie with Bob Dylan with The Stanley Brothers with Elvis with Blind Willie Johnson with Dead Kennedys with Kitty Wells with everything else. It's basically the whole history of RCA Studio B (Where it was recorded) all coming through at once. It's kind of ultimate postmodernism with all its machine noise turned down, so that the only noise is the noise of analogue tape, and yes, of fingers clicking on the strings.
― St. Brendan, Nashville TN, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I just wanted to add one little note for posterity's sake. The association of John in "I Dream a Highway" with John Henry is wrong. Like many of the other characters in this song, she's refering to a singer -- here Johnny Cash. Back when Johnny Cash was really screwed up on drugs and alcohol, he wreaked a little hell at the Grand Old Opry. At this show, he walked around the stage and kicked out the stage lights. The audience and the powers that be at the Grand Old Opry freaked and Mr. Cash was banned from the Grand Old Opry for many years.
She does go on to tie Johnny Cash in with John Henry in her reference to the hammer, but her initial reference is explicitly referring to the former.
― Bob Brookins, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Nothing as erudite as all the musings upthread. Just wanted to note that Gillian & David's cover of Black Star is excellent.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, they did that when I saw them live and it was quite striking
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
No album in four years though and no current tours.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
lazy zing x 1000, and yet...
http://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_music_image_300.jpg
― gershy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for the pointer to the WFUV - Bonnaroo interview. Sounds like they are at least starting to pull together some new material.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Soul Journey as a deliberate full album, how the final lines rhyme "mall" (mall!) and "ball" and refer to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and how they've got electric guitars for the first time in this song, and it feels like the end of a two-album or maybe four-album song cycle.
Also I love how each of her records sets up particular conventions in the first minute or two that define the parameters of what we'll hear: the dissonant opening to Time, the drums on Soul Journey.
I mean, there are plenty of other pleasures in this music, but their structure as full albums is part of it.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Revelator is conceptually brilliant.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
WHAT DO I PLAY TO SEDUCE CORNY FOLK FUCK
― gershy, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
For me, it's been downhill since Revival, and her reference to Gram Parsons pretty much takes all the fun out of ODing in a cheap motel room with a groupie.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i think revelator is the only record where she figured out how to do something wholly her own. still shows all her obvious debts and influences, and still indulges in some po-faced po'-folks stuff, but the musical and lyrical reference points are farther flung and more mysterious than on the other albums. i think it's really a great record. the songs stand up individually but also cohere into something greater, mystical, apocalyptic (and/or rapturous, if there's a difference).
on another note, anyone heard tim and mollie o'brien's cover of "wichita"? that's one of my favorite non-revelator gil songs, but she hasn't released a version of it herself as far as i know. the o'briens version is great.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I totally agree about Revelator, and Soul Journey was a bit of a letdown in that regard - I mean not that she went backward or anything, but the album didn't add up to much for me.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I also really like the Nowhere Man/Whiskey Girl song for similar reasons (does something her own, loses the po-faced schtick)
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
All the talk of Red Clay upthread reminded me of this story
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess taste is taste, but I can't help but think that people who use the "NPR music" zing are more interested in stylistic than qualitative distinctions.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean i remember that xhucx kept calling her "schoolmarm folk," and I can hardly accuse him of being deaf to qualitative distinctions, but I don't hear schoolmarm folk in Gillian Welch at all.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
well there is something a little antiseptic about her, although in a somewhat complicated way (as marcello's first post does a good job of illuminating: "too impeccable to be real; not enough dirt on her boots, not enough creases in his suit. But then that's the point.")
i understand complaints about her humorlessness, even though i think she's funny sometimes, and as far as neo-authenticity goes she can be a big offender. but that's one reason i think revelator is her best record, because it kind of moved beyond a lot of that. a few songs aside (including "red clay halo," which i like a lot anyway because it's a good tune), it's not particularly mannered or self-consciously rootsy.
"npr music" though is just as dumb as any other dumb tag. bob dylan is npr music too. so is ella fitzgerald. and?
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought "Red Clay Halo" was a cover - it sounds like some kind of traditional song that's filtered down over the years into the martyr complex of mainstream country (and a lot of rural, or wannabe rural, white people - them big city elites are making fun of us!).
― milo z, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
guess I missed the secret sign that "npr music" was supposed to be trenchant criticism. ok, you've convinced me that she's crap. will stop listening to her and all other npr crap immediately.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 25 October 2007 06:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Can we agree on a definition - "NPR Rock" ??
― gershy, Thursday, 25 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ROFFLE:
somewhere between crowded house and wilco.
-- stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:12 (1 year ago) Link ...there lies obsession.
-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:32 (1 year ago) Link
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread reminds me of what Tom Smucker (quoted by Xgau) said about Woodstock: "I left one thing out of my Woodstock article. I left out how boring it was."
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
No album in four years though and no current tours.― Hurting 2, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:09 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:09 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark
What is up with that?
― caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
weirder is that there kind of were tours, right? like a bunch of american shows a year ago, maybe. she's got really good new songs, too.
― schlump, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I am watching this right now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qnh/BBC_Four_Sessions_Gillian_Welch/
― caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
(which that Youtube is from)
yeah funny that it's been so long since her last record! i interviewed her in 2005, i think, and at the time she hinted that a new record was imminent. guess not! she did say that she liked having her own label because it allowed her to go by her own timeline. have heard one amazing new song "the way it will be" that they play live. though calling it new at this point is silly, i think I heard them do it in 2003 ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
saw her in brooklyn last year and she was grrr8
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
website lists a bunch of albums that she and david rawlings have "appeared" on, no tour dates
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of assumed after Everything Is Free and Wrecking Ball that she'd just never bother recording for public release again.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
New album due next year according to metacritic; no release date as yet.
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw her play summer before last and she was superb. They are a uniquely mesmerising live act. That song "Throw Me A Rope" has been hanging around at least since near the time of Soul Journey. Hope it's on any new album that comes out.
― Freedom, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
^It should be; it's been a staple of the live set for a while. In an NPR interview at Newport this year she said she & Dave were in the midst of recording a new album. Said it doesn't take them all that long to record them, just to start recording.
And YOW! that initial post! Well done, Marcello. Though I would argue vociferously with many of your transcriptions ("every word seen in the data"?) and quibble with your interpretations, you capture the SPIRIT of the record extremely well. It's an album that calls for interpretation, explication, exegesis. Repeated listening as a whole artifact, complete immersion, fear and trembling. It has some kind of special power that she'll probably never tap again (and the timing of the album was accidentally impeccable; it had a weight that seemed to capture the whole circa-911 American underground zeitgeist perfectly). For a long, long time I've wanted to write a fairly lengthy piece about this album but have felt - have been - unequal to it. Yours will do instead. Kudos.
― staggerlee, Thursday, 23 October 2008 02:55 (fifteen years ago) link
have just been blown away by this album, having not played it in years. there's not one wasted moment. great writing upthread too.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Six years without a record. Weird.
― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 06:23 (fifteen years ago) link
don't think she's toured in a very long time either
― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Doesn't she guest on a track on the Dark Was The Night compilation?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 06:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe she is gone off the net because of me.
― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, I loved Soul Journey at the time, I might dig it out again this evening.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she plays at least a few shows every year -- and there's something called the David Rawlings Machine that seems to be playing out from time to time. Not sure what that is, though. Covers? But yeah, the fact that she's made what -- 4 records in 15 years does not suggest someone too concerned with a standard timetable. But anyone who's made a record as flat out brilliant as Revelator has earned her laziness!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://atruersound.blogspot.com/2007/07/gillian-welch-david-rawlings-revival.html
― caek, Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
what happened to that duets album that was meant to come out last year
― thomp, Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
well, this is out ... Basically a Gillian Welch/David Rawlings record, I gather, with Rawlings fronting the band ... http://kylepetersen.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/daveraw_cover_select-353x.jpgHaven't heard it though!
― tylerw, Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it's okay
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:29 (fourteen 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 (two 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 (two 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 (eleven months ago) link
OTM
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 April 2023 13:23 (eleven months 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 (eight months ago) link
This is superb, thank you dow. Love the art, too.
― Indexed, Thursday, 10 August 2023 21:45 (eight 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 (eight 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
You underrate the value of the deluxe slipcase and custom tape boxes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:41 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Red Clay Halo is just the best
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 December 2023 16:01 (four 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 (two months ago) link
! Moar dates please
― that's not my post, Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:53 (two months ago) link