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 previews Lost Songs Vol. 3

Listen to "Peace In The Valley" and "There's A First Time For Everything" off Boots No. 2: Lost Songs Vol.3 out November 13.

Watch Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings sing "When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings"

This song that Dave & Gillian wrote for the Coen Bros. western The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs was nominated for an Oscar.

Dave Rawlings & Gillian Welch's current road trip doesn't run through Toronto

The Dave Rawlings Machine hits Buffalo's Asbury Hall Nov 5.  Watch the "The Weekend" clip and their HSB set.

The new Dave Rawlings Machine album Nashville Obsolete is out now. Check their complete tour schedule below.

The Perlich Post's Top 100 Albums of 2011

1. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
2. Nat Birchall - Sacred Dimension
3. Alela Diane & Wild Divine - Alela Diane & Wild Divine
4. The Greg Foat Group - Dark Is The Sun
5. The Walkabouts - Travels In The Dustland
6. Heidi Happy - Hiding With The Wolves
7. The Black Keys - El Camino
8. Tristen - Charlatans At The Garden Gate
9. Merle Haggard - Working In Tennessee
10. Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
11. Austin Peralta - Endless Planets
12. The Dirtbombs - Party Store
13. Boubacar Traore - Mali Denhou
14. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
15. The Bo-Keys - Got To Get Back!
16. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
17. Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
18. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
19. The Fleshtones - Brooklyn Sound Solution
20. Grimble Grumble - September Sun
21. John Paul Keith - The Man That Time Forgot
22. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
23. Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings

24. Diana Panton - To Brazil With Love
25. The Reigning Sound - Abdication... For Your Love
26. Tex Perkins - Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses

27. Bombino - Agadez
28. Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven
29. The Bats - Free All The Monsters
30. OFF! - The First Four EPs

31. The Bevis Frond - The Leaving Of London
32. Tom T. Hall - A Gift From Tom T. Hall
33. Alex Pangman - 33
34. The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Heirloom Music
35. Nicola Conte - Love & Revolution
36. The Pining - The Pining
37. Phil Ranelin – Perseverance

38. Vieux Farka Toure – The Secret
39. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming / The Instrumentals
40. Tom Russell - Mesabi

41. Austra - Feel It Break
42. White Denim - D
43. Bruce Peninsula - Open Flames
44. Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizon Ensemble – The Prairie Prophet
45. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - From Africa With Fury: Rise
46. JD McPherson - Signs & Signifiers

47. Jack Oblivion - Rat City
48. Psychic Paramount - II
49. Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser
50. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
51. Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
52. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound - Want More
53. Connie Smith - Long Line Of Heartaches
54. Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic
55. My Darling Clementine - How Do You Plead?
56. Hanni El Khatib - Will The Guns Come Out?
57. Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
58. Jeff The Brotherhood - We Are The Champions
59. Ken Vandermark's Predella Group - Strade d'Acqua
60. Limes - Tarantula
61. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
62. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
63. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
64. Seu Jorge – Músicas para Churrasco, Vol. 1
65. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
66. Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath The Willow
67. Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
68. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
69. Bio Ritmo – La Verdad
70. Moon Duo - Mazes
71. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
72. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
73. Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses
74. Krallice - Diotima
75. The Ettes - Wicked Will
76. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
77. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
78. Quintron - Sucre Du Sauvage
79. The Warped 45s - Matador Sunset
80. David Kilgour - Left By Soft
81. This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
82. Slaid Cleaves - Sorrow & Smoke
83. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Rome
84. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy
85. Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO
86. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Cotonou Club
87. Royal Headache - Royal Headache
88. Wild Beasts - Smother
89. Shelby Earl - Burn The Boats
90. Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou
91. Yuck - Yuck
92. Iceage - New Brigade
93. Nick Lowe - The Old Magic
94. Apache Dropout - Apache Dropout
95. Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey
96. The Dirty Streets - Movements
97. The Mekons - Ancient and Modern
98. Sonny & The Sunsets - Hit After Hit
99. Glen Campbell - Ghost On A Canvas
100. Ikebe Shakedown — Ikebe Shakedown

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