Watch Gillian Welch & David Rawlings play a Tiny Desk Concert

Some 15 years since their last Tiny Desk Concert, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings return to perform songs from Woodland.

Watch Gillian Welch & David Rawlings play two songs live on The Late Show

Here's Gillian Welch and David Rawlings performing two songs off their acclaimed Woodland album.  

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings cover John Anderson tune for new tribute album

Easy Eye Sound's new John Anderson salute, Something Borrowed, Something New is out August 5th. Pre-order it here.  

Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson

“1959” performed by John Prine

 “Years” performed by Sierra Ferrell

“Wild and Blue” performed by Brent Cobb

“Low Dog Blues” performed by Nathaniel Rateliff

“Mississippi Moon” performed by Eric Church

“I Just Came Home to Count the Memories” performed by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

“Shoot Low Sheriff!” performed by Tyler Childers

“Seminole Wind” performed by Luke Combs

“When It Comes to You” performed by Sturgill Simpson

“You Can’t Judge a Book (By The Cover)” performed by Brothers Osborne

“Would You Catch a Falling Star” performed by Del McCoury feat. Sierra Hull

“Straight Tequila Night” performed by Ashley McBryde

“I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day)” performed by Jamey Johnson

Happy Birthday T Bone Burnett

Celebrating T Bone Burnett's 73rd birthday with a few of his memorable musical collaborations. 

Gillian Welch's rootsy new album The Harrow & The Harvest due June 28

According to a press release issued today by Outside Music who distribute Gillian Welch's Acony Records label in Canada, Gillian Welch's highly anticipated new album The Harrow & The Harvest will hit the streets June 28. Even better news is that this "return to the roots" recording was produced by her longtime collaborator David Rawlings who'll be accompanying Welch on her North American tour which kicks off at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA on May 30 – already sold out. There could be a Toronto date announced any time now but in the meantime, here's the scoop on the new album which gets the thumbs up from Colin Meloy of The Decemberists who benefited greatly from the presence of Welch on their latest album, The King Is Dead...

Acony Records is proud to announce that on June 28, 2011 they will release The Harrow & The Harvest, the new album by Gillian Welch, featuring ten new songs recorded at her own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville , Tennessee and produced by David Rawlings.

On May 30, 2011, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will embark on a North American tour supporting The Harrow & The Harvest that will continue through the summer and into the fall.  The acclaimed duet will visit over seventy cities in their most extensive tour in over a decade.

The Harrow & The Harvest, "is a new Southern sound," writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, "with the sort of songs you wouldn't be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia;  Songs you'd expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening.  Songs with the wry humor of the back porch.  Listen to this record with the lights low.  Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear."  

Uncut Magazine's Album of the Month review calls The Harrow & The Harvest a "timeless country classic, this is Welch's most ruggedly traditional work yet."  And closes by lamenting,  "The only thing wrong with a Gillian Welch album is that she makes so damn few of them."

Welch and Rawlings met at Berklee College of Music in Boston .  Together, they moved to Nashville , TN , where most of their work together has been produced. Since then, they have influenced and inspired new generations of country and folk singers, songwriters and players. They have earned the slavish admiration of many of the most lauded and loved voices of the Americana milieu, and had their songs recorded by the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Solomon Burke.

Down By The Water by The Decemberists feat. Gillian Welch