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, it's sort of amazing it took them 6 years to release what is essentially a stop-gap album ...!
― tylerw, Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish she'd come back. I have strong nostalgic ties to Hell Among The Yearlings and it's always been my go-to album of hers. It came along at one of those times in life when no matter what it was coming along it's going to mean something to you forever. It was kinda funny to seek out other albums that I recognized as being equally good, more or less, and to realize that the sentimental pull I've attributed to the music for so long had a lot more to do with time and place, with me and my own life, than anything else. Which of course isn't to sell her short...
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Too many years of the wrong GW amirite
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that Rawlings Band album better and better the more I listen to it. But it ain't a patch on the GW-fronted stuff. You just can't fuck with her voice, whereas DR is a much better backup singer than frontman.
― Did you say you were going to mangle the light? (staggerlee), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that marcello review is unreadable.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
And you realise that this astonishing piece of music is beyond even a reverie, not the reverie of the dying Charles Foster Kane trying to make a personal sense of his life, but the imagined, implanted reverie we recognise from Blade Runner. It is the American equivalent of Tricky's "Aftermath." A replicant trying to learn and assimilate an alien cultural vocabulary. Bowie's imagined Sinatra gabble at the end of "Low." An alien trying to find its mother, its womb.
actually part of it is very readable, for roffles.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that review is pretty much horseshit.
I've seen GW and DR MANY times - at Merlefest, with the bluegrass faithful who absolutely LOVE them, at Bonnaroo, with the hippies, who also LOVE them, and out in LA at the Largo, a venue that, among other things, serves as their home away from home. She is FAR from humorless, is an excellent musician, and any aping or pantomime that may come across to those looking for more "authentic" country is her adoption of a certain musical vocabulary, and not her attempt to come across as real or the genuine article.
ALL the musicians I've ever seen her play with - Emmy Lou Harris, Tony Rice, Alison Kraus, etc. - they all have a great affection for these two, and obv. enjoy the opportunity to play with them.
That's all I'll ever need to know.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 31 December 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
saw Dave Rawling Machine in London last night; was incredible and kicking myself for not checking out the album after i heard some reviews comparing it unfavourably to the GW albums, as all the stuff sounded great. they did a few Gillian songs too, PLUS OH MY FUCKING GOD special guest for nearly the whole set JOHN PAUL JONES on mandolin. They covered Cortez The Killer and Queen Jane Approximately. With JOHN PAUL JONES. possibly gig of the year. Old Crow Medicine Show headlined afterwards and we left after 20 minutes. Pretty good stuff but not comparable to what came before.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i pity anyone who has to follow those guys, whether it's gillian welch straight up or dave rawlings machine. still need to get that album, though. any news on an actual gillian welch record?
― tylerw, Saturday, 18 September 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/psst-gillian-welchs-new-thelooks like there is finally a new record coming out! better be good, right?
― tylerw, Friday, 20 May 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://cache.dealbreaker.com/uploads/2010/11/drudge-siren2.gif
― caek, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.twentyfourbit.com/post/5556572784/gillian-welch-to-release-fifth-lp-in-june
It’s been eight years since Gillian Welch’s last solo album came out, but the wait for a follow-up to 2003’s Soul Journey will soon be over: NPR reports that Welch’s fifth LP, The Harrow and the Harvest, will arrive on June 28 via her own label, Acony Records.
Though she hasn’t released much music under her own name in nearly a decade, Welch has been steadily touring and collaborating with a number of artists in the meantime, more recently recording in the studio and performing on Conan with the Decemberists for the first single off their latest album, The King is Dead. Welch and longtime musical partner/producer David Rawlings have also been touring in support of both his debut LP and Conor Oberst’s 2010 Concert for Equality rally.
Details are scarce at the moment, but in the meantime, you can catch her on tour with Buffalo Springfield
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 May 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Very exciting. Hoping for something akin to "Revelator"..
― Mule, Friday, 20 May 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
SWEEEEEEEEET
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Friday, 20 May 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
The affiliation with Oberst is troubling but I'm crossing my fingers....
― suspecterrain, Monday, 23 May 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
personally find the affiliation with the decemberists more worrying since they've actually been performing with them (also i prefer oberst (in the "better a punch the balls than a kick in the balls" way)).
as long as neither is on the album it's not a problem. and if they are, who knows, maybe it will be ok.
― caek, Monday, 23 May 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
welch/rawlings affiliate with a lot of people. gotta do something while you're putting off making a record of your own for eight years.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― caek, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Welch/Rawlings are so tasteful and their instincts so sound that I think they could make the most of a Peaches cameo, let alone someone actually sympathetic like Oberst or the Decemberists. I wouldn't sweat it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
otm!weirdly, heard "my morphine" on the radio (college station) while driving around yesterday. dj seemed to be doing some kind of "country drug song" set. ("Sam Stone" preceded it). What a crazy, slow, beautiful song.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
xp i dunno, pretty much every time they collaborate with someone it's much worse than them on their own. at least part of that is making bad choices about who to collaborate with.
having said that a lot of the collaboration things seemed a little half baked, and this sounds more like a real album.
also there doesn't seem to be any suggestion there are any collaborations on this album!
― caek, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
was "soul journey" any good? that completely passed me by.
― Michael B, Monday, 23 May 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was good. kind of had to a little bit of a letdown after the amazing revelator, but some great stuff. kind of think they'll be living up to revelator for the rest of their careers, but who knows?
― tylerw, Monday, 23 May 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
the songwriting wasn't as strong as revelator imo, but i did like the full band sound
― caek, Monday, 23 May 2011 16:37 (twelve 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