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Twang/Twinge of Love
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No Permanent Address
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5,000 countryandwestern Fans Can't Be Wrong
Valentine's Day for Lovers
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Gillian Welch has started an archive of live performances
Only back to last year, but maybe we’ll get lucky and she’ll expand it.
Gillian Welch: Stark, Mysterious Beauty
50 minute interview/concert on WFUV.
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths - My Morphine
The frontman of New York Dolls (who probably knows a thing or two about narcotics) takes on Gillian Welch.
Pretty cool.
John McCauley of Deer Tick (bear suit/suspenders) leads the Low Anthem, David Wax Museum, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Sara Watkins, Delta Spirit, Brown Bird and friends in “Goodnight Irene” and “La Bamba”/”Twist And Shout” after the Newport Folk Festival!
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings doing their thing yesterday at Newport Folk.
Saturday @ 4:45
Been a Gillian kind of week, but when you only get a new album twice a decade…
Video: Gillian Welch Plays Conan - “The Way It Goes”
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings stopped by Conan for a live take on the first single off their long-awaited fifth studio album, The Harrow & the Harvest, streaming here.
(Source: twentyfourbit)
Craft is everything.
Gillian Welch’s new album released this week, The Harrow & The Harvest, contains one of these handmade letterpress CD jewelcase inserts shown in this video. A real labor of love, as you will see.
“Interviews with Aardvark Letterpress, John Dyer Baizley, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings about the making of the letterpressed album cover insert for The Harrow & The Harvest, the new 2011 Gillian Welch album.”
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Time (The Revelator)
While we’re on the subject of Gillian Welch, I need to put this out there. It took me a long time to figure out the connection, but is Dave’s riff at 6:57 a Prince homage or just a coincidence?
Purple Rain solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l75skRMlXk&feature=player_detailpage#t=269s
Pretty close, eh?
Gillian Welch - The Way The Whole Thing Ends
The last song on The Harrow & The Harvest
Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings & John Hartford - Dear Someone
Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town
The first song off The Harrow & The Harvest.
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Music for your Monday: NPR Music is streaming Gillian Welch’s ‘The Harrow and the Harvest’ in its entirety. Enjoy!
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Red Dirt Halo
