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Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) CD Review

TheCelebrityCafe.com - Found Jun. 5, 2009
- Gillian Welch is part of a new kind of country.

Posted on June 5, 2009, 2:04 am

Gillian Welch Prepares Summer Festival Dates

Country Music Television - Found May. 14, 2009
Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch will be performing at a number of festivals this summer.

Posted on May 14, 2009, 12:52 pm

No Depression Festival features Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, July 11 ...

An Honest Tune - Found May. 11, 2009
The all-day event will feature Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Justin Townes...

Posted on May 11, 2009, 11:32 am

BMI Sues Ludlow Venue Pianos

Village Voice - Found 4 hours ago
McInnes gay panic Gay Talese genre get well Ghostface Killah Ghostland Observatory Gil Scott-Heron Gillian Welch girls named after maxi-pads...

Posted on July 4, 2009, 6:58 am

Forever The Activist: Pete Seeger Still Mesmerizing Fans

24-7PressRelease.com - Found Jul. 3, 2009
... you speak to artists in the new generation of folk -- people like Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) and Gillian Welch and Colin Meloy (The Decemberists...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 6:12 am

Old Crow Medicine Show Plans Live DVD on Aug. 18

Country Music Television - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... for 'Wagon Wheel' and The band will also tour with the David Rawlings Machine (featuring Gillian Welch), the Felice Brothers and starting Aug...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 3:22 am

There Is Something Special About Sarah Jarosz

Country Music Television - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... and creating my own music out of that.? With the influence of artists like Tim O?Brien, Gillian Welch, Chris Thile, Darrell Scott, Mike...

Posted on July 1, 2009, 3:16 am

Indie music heaven

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Amazing duets: Feist and Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie on 'Train Song,' Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch on 'Lua' (originally on Bright...

Posted on June 30, 2009, 6:05 am

Big Surprise Tour -- Beacon Theater -- August 6

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 29, 2009
There haven't been any shows like this in the city in a long time. Gillian Welch Dave Rawlings Beacon Theatre

Posted on June 29, 2009, 12:19 pm

Greenville, SC Offers 3 Days of 'Bluegrass at Peace' Oct 30--Nov 1

Cybergrass - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Or maybe you associate them with The Fairfield Four or Gillian Welch? even Minnie Pearl.

Posted on June 29, 2009, 4:22 am

Gillian Welch Biography

Gillian Welch
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Gillian Howard Welch
Gillian Welch in 2007
Gillian Welch in 2007
Background information
Born October 2, 1967 (1967-10-02) (age 41)

New York City, New York, U.S.

Origin Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre(s) bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old time, folk, American Primitivism
Instrument(s) singing, guitar, banjo, drums, harmonica
Associated acts Dave Rawlings Machine, David Rawlings, Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue
Website http://www.gillianwelch.com/
Notable instrument(s)
1956 Gibson J-50

Gillian Welch (born October 2, 1967 in New York City)1 is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old-time string band music, and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive".2 Her recordings feature the harmonies and unconventional guitar work of her musical partner, David Rawlings. Welch pronounces her first name with a hard G /ɡ/ rather than /dʒ/.

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Biography and career

Welch was born in Manhattan and was adopted when she was three days old. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of four. On her eighth birthday she wished for and got a guitar and lessons, and learned soon to play the guitar. Studying at the University of California, Santa Cruzcitation needed Welch discovered bluegrass music through the "mountain soul" stylings of The Stanley Brothers.3 After a short stint in a local camp band called Söfa, Welch moved to Boston and studied at the Berklee College of Music.

In Boston, Welch met and began dating David Rawlings, who would become her long-time musical partner. In 1992, they moved to Nashville and began building a career. In Nashville, she met T-Bone Burnett,4 producer to such artists as Los Lobos, Sam Phillips, Counting Crows, and Elvis Costello. In 1996, Welch released her first album, Revival, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1997.2 Since then, she has recorded other albums and collaborated on the songs "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby" and "I'll Fly Away" on the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the Coen Brothers hit film O Brother, Where Art Thou?.5 Welch also had a cameo in the film, as a woman in a record store trying to obtain a copy of the Soggy Bottom Boys' recording of "Man of Constant Sorrow".

Welch has also collaborated with good friend and singer/songwriter Ryan Adams on the albums Heartbreaker and Demolition. She and Rawlings toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller in 2004 as The Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. Welch and Rawlings have collaborated with Old Crow Medicine Show and appear in their video of their song "Wagon Wheel". Recently, Welch and Rawlings have been touring with Bright Eyes in 2007 on their American Cassadaga tour. Also in 2007, her song Elvis Presley Blues was covered by Jimmy Buffett on his Take the Weather With You album. Her song "My First Lover" is featured in the motion picture The Strangers.6 Welch and Rawlings made surprise appearances in Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; Norfolk, Virginia; and Asheville, North Carolina opening for Rilo Kiley in June 2008 to showcase new songs the two had been working on.

Discography

Solo

Year Album Chart Positions Label
US US Heat US Indie
1996 Revival Almo
1998 Hell Among the Yearlings 181 9 Acony
2001 Time (The Revelator) 157 5 7
2003 Soul Journey 107 1 3

Other appearances

Videography

Notes

References

  • Friskics-Warren, Bill (1998). "Gillian Welch". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 575.

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