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August 6, 2002

Welch Leads Americana Nominees

Kelly Willis, Flatlanders to perform at first annual awards show
April 19, 2001

"O Brother" to Hit Carnegie

Hit soundtrack spawns an NYC appearance, additional dates to come
March 19, 2001

Ike, Mellow Tops at SXSW

Fifteenth annual Texas music fest serves up faire from Paris to San Francisco
September 22, 1998

Country Stalwarts Struggle With Live Set

Welch and Buckner: Intelligent yet Uncomfortable

Recordings and Reviews

Soul Journey

Roots-music disciple Gillian Welch never met a languid, Spartan arrangement she couldn't sidle up to and charm. On Soul Journey, though, her slow, earnest songs (co-written with longtime collaborator David Rawlings) don't have the texture of those from her three previous albums. Tracks such as...

2003 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Time (The Revelator)

2001

Hell Among The Yearlings

1998

Revival

1996

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Biography

On a debut album that came out of nowhere and raised lots of questions about what bluegrass could be, this Los Angeles?born singer/songwriter does more than impersonate the hard-times praise music of Bill Monroe: She inhabits it. With partner, David Rawlings, Welch sings strong, sad ballads that invoke and do not redirect classic bluegrass and folk idioms -- faith in God, fast old cars, ties to...

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