In March 2020, when a lethal twister tore through East Nashville just days before an even more devastating pandemic, the storied Woodland Sound Studios — home to the likes of Tammy Wynette’s Soft Touch, Indigo Girls’ Swamp Ophelia, Jimmy Buffett’s A1A, and scores of cherished others — stood tall in …
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Throughout their first decade of record-making, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings performed, they’d joke, as “a two person band they called Gillian Welch.” There was a spine-tingling profundity and a solemn intensity to the universe of sound created when Rawlings and Welch stood around a single microphone and sang songs …
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are back with Woodland, the first album of songs written by the duo in seven years. The 10-track album was recorded entirely at the East Nashville studio that bears its name, which the duo has owned for more than two decades. “Woodland is at the …
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