Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced the release of their 10th studio album, Woodland, via their own Acony Records label on August 23rd. The new 10-song collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism and cements the pair’s iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music.
Woodland was named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio they said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.”
Woodland is their first album since 2020’s All the Good Times, a collection of covers and classic folk songs which earned the duo the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album, and their first album of new original music since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack. Pre-order or pre-save Woodland here. Vinyl and CD are available to preorder today from the Acony Records Online Store, and the album will be available worldwide on all formats later this fall.
Welch and Rawlings also share the first track off Woodland “Empty Trainload Of Sky”. Listen to “Empty Trainload Of Sky” below..
Welch and Rawlings have also announced new shows this fall including St Paul, Kansas City, Atlanta, Detroit and more (full dates below). They will also return to Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI where they will close the festival main stage at the historic Newport Folk Festival on July 27th. These upcoming dates will be some of their first public performances since appearing on 2019’s Oscars. The pair will announce additional dates throughout 2024 and 2025. The new dates will go on sale on Friday, July 26th at 10am Local Time here.
Track Listing
- Empty Trainload Of Sky
- What We Had
- Lawman
- The Bells And The Birds
- North Country
- Hashtag
- The Day The Mississippi Died
- Turf The Gambler
- Here Stands A Woman
- Howdy Howdy
Tour Dates
July 23 – South Burlington, VT at Higher Ground SOLD OUT
July 24 – Northampton, MA at Iron Horse Music Hall SOLD OUT
July 25 – Northampton, MA at Iron Horse Music Hall SOLD OUT
July 27 – Newport, RI at Newport Folk Festival SOLD OUT
Sept 04 – Bowling Green, KY at SKyPAC
Sept 05 – Bloomington, IN at The Bluebird
Sept 06 – Evanston, IL at Cahn Auditorium
Sept 08 – Madison, WI at The Orpheum Theater
Sept 09 – St Paul, MN at The Fitzgerald Theater
Sept 10 – St Paul, MN at The Fitzgerald Theater
Sept 12 – Des Moines, IA at Hoyt Sherman Place
Sept 14 – La Vista, NE at The Astro
Sept 15 – Kansas City, MO at Folly Theater
Sept 16 – St Louis, MO at The Sheldon
Oct 13 – Birmingham, AL at The Lyric Theatre
Oct 14 – Atlanta, GA at Atlanta Symphony Hall
Oct 15 – Charlotte, NC at Knight Theater
Oct 17 – Boone, NC at The Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
Oct 18 – Knoxville, TN at Bijou Theatre
Oct 19 – Asheville, NC at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Oct 21 – Charleston, SC at Charleston Music Hall
Oct 23 – Saxapahaw, NC at Haw River Ballroom
Oct 24 – Saxapahaw, NC at Haw River Ballroom
Nov 20 – Louisville, KY at The Brown Theatre
Nov 21 – Cincinnati, OH at Taft Theatre
Nov 22 – Detroit, MI at The Masonic Temple
Nov 23 – Akron, OH at Goodyear Theater
Nov 25 – Pittsburgh, PA at Byham Theater
Nov 26 – Ithaca, NY at State Theatre of Ithaca
Nov 27 – Troy, NY at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Nov 30 – Kingston, NY at Ulster Performing Arts Center
Dec 1 – Boston, MA at The Wilbur
Dec 3 – Portland, ME at State Theatre
Dec 5 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
