Gillian Welch, David Rawlings – Woodland (2024) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Gillian Welch, David Rawlings – Woodland (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:03 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

What a treat to get another album from this fascinating creative and personal partnership. Although Woodland is technically only the second album credited to Gillian Welch and husband David Rawlings as a duo, after 2020’s Grammy-winning All the Good Times, the couple’s collaborations go all the way back to Welch’s 1996 debut Revival. She’s been a part of his band Dave Rawlings Machine and performed on his excellent 2017 solo record, just as he has done on all of hers. Here, you get the two trading off leads as well as singing together. The harmonies are striking on “What We Had”—melodically, not so far off from Fleetwood Mac—as they never hold the other back, each safe and free to go off in their own direction and trust it will work as a unit. Welch’s vivid imagery hits you in the gut on the bluesy, shuffling “Empty Trainload of Sky”: “Saw a freight train yesterday/ It was chugging, plugging away/ ‘Cross a river trestle so high/ Just a boxcar blue/ Showing daylight clear through … ,” she sings—pure poetry. “For a moment I was tempted to fly/ To the Devil or the Lord/ As it hung there like a sword/ Just an empty trainload of sky.”What a joke it is now to think that, when her first albums came out in the 1990s, critics questioned how a girl from Southern California could play “Appalachian” music. She’s forged her own Americana path, weaving in mountain and plains traditions from every corner of the country—even (especially) when it hurts. Welch questions whether America is so divided and damaged that its crazy quilt can ever be repaired on “The Day the Mississippi Died,” hitting clear, perfect high notes. Rawlings’ high-lonesome style and flatpicking shine, too, on tracks like “Turf the Gambler.” “Lawman” is a slow-moving twist on an old murder ballad, the gentle music flowing as effortlessly as a creek around curving bends. “North Country” is absolutely gorgeous and tender-hearted.

At 56 (Welch) and 54 (Rawlings), the two are curious about the vagaries of middle age and what comes next. The existential heartbreaker, “Hashtag,” finds Rawlings—his appealingly nasal delivery softened by Welch on the chorus—honoring the late, great Guy Clark. “You laughed and said the news would be bad/ If I ever saw your name with a hashtag/ Singers like you and I/ Are only news when we die … Now let the wheels spin and the tears roll out/ And the tributes roll in,” he sings, before asking: “When will we become ourselves?” And Welch sounds about as good as she ever has on “Here Stands a Woman,” an affecting portrait of aging’s inevitable shock. “Now I’m looking in the mirror … it’s all gone babe, like the song says/ Fallen from her curls/ Here stands a woman/ Where there once was a girl.” But the two seem ready to walk forward together, wherever that leads them. As they sing on “Howdy Howdy”—just their voices and carefully, intricately plucked strings—”We’ve been together since I don’t know when/ And the best part’s where one starts and the other ends.”

Tracklist:

1-01. Gillian Welch – Empty Trainload Of Sky (03:24)
1-02. Gillian Welch – What We Had (03:58)
1-03. Gillian Welch – Lawman (04:31)
1-04. Gillian Welch – The Bells And The Birds (03:13)
1-05. Gillian Welch – North Country (05:12)
1-06. Gillian Welch – Hashtag (03:34)
1-07. Gillian Welch – The Day The Mississippi Died (04:55)
1-08. Gillian Welch – Turf The Gambler (02:49)
1-09. Gillian Welch – Here Stands A Woman (05:17)
1-10. Gillian Welch – Howdy Howdy (04:04)

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