Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:11:42 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Folk, Americana, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. This remarkable 48 song collection, spread over three volumes, was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. It is an intimate glimpse at the artist’s sketchbook, containing some lifelong themes as well as some flights of fancy. The versatility and quality shown here greatly expand the Welch/Rawlings canon, and confirm that the acclaimed studio albums from the pair have never been an accident but a clear artistic choice.

(more…)

Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:13 minutes | 464 MB | Genre: Folk, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

Volume 3 of Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs will come out in two weeks on November 13th. You can listen to two songs now, “Peace In The Valley” and “There’s A First Time For Everything.”

Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. This remarkable 48 song collection, spread over three volumes, was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. It is an intimate glimpse at the artist’s sketchbook, containing some lifelong themes as well as some flights of fancy. Volumes 1 & 2 were released in July and September respectively.

(more…)

Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:56 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

Vol. 2 is the second instalment of the newly unearthed and celebrated cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings from the vault of Welch and Rawlings and was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey.

(more…)

Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:38 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. This remarkable 48 song collection, spread over three volumes, was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. It is an intimate glimpse at the artist’s sketchbook, containing some lifelong themes as well as some flights of fancy. The versatility and quality shown here greatly expand the Welch/Rawlings canon, and confirm that the acclaimed studio albums from the pair have never been an accident but a clear artistic choice.

(more…)

Gillian Welch – All The Good Times (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:06 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acony Records

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have released a new album of covers titled All the Good Times. It features two Bob Dylan tracks, John Prine’s “Hello in There,” a song by folk guitarist Elizabeth Cotten, and a version of “Jackson,” which Johnny Cash and June Carter made famous. The album takes its title from the traditional tune “All The Good Times Are Past and Gone,” which also appears in the collection. Check it out below.

Welch’s most recent album under her own name was The Harrow and the Harvest, which came out in 2011. In 2016, she released Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, a collection of demos and other recordings made early in her career. Welch also joined Rawlings on his 2017 LP Poor David’s Almanack and the 2015 Dave Rawlings Machine album Nashville Obsolete.

Welch and David Rawlings performed their Ballad of Buster Scruggs song “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” at the 2019 Academy Awards, where they were up for Best Original Song.

(more…)