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Gillian Welch - 'The Harrow and The Harvest'

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Jul 7, 2011 Updated Jul 15, 2011

The US singer-songwriter's first release in eight years is this week's feature album.

Track List:

    1. Scarlet Town
    2. Dark Turn Of Mind
    3. The Way It Will Be
    4. The Way It Goes
    5. Tennessee
    6. Down Along The Dixie Line
    7. Six White Horses
    8. Hard Times
    9. Silver Dagger
    10. The Way The Whole Thing Ends

External Review:

"It's been eight years since Gillian Welch's last album and the The Harrow & The Harvest is worth the wait. The interplay between Welch and David Rawlings's guitars is dazzlingly expert as they dance around the slow, melancholy beauty of Welch's voice. There cannot be another musical duet around at the moment who are able to make two acoustic guitars and two voices produce a sound that is so subtle and yet powerful. This is American folk music at its very best".

[ Martin Chilton, UK Daily Telegraph ]

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Feature Album

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Gillian Welch (born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms". Welch and Rawlings have released five critically...

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