Any gillian welch fans?

Have every album. Saw her live last year and it was one of the best concert's I've seen in years. Just her and her accompaniest up on stage. Her accompaniest, David Rawlings, is an astounding guitar player. Run, don't walk, to see them play live if you enjoy her music. Wonderful! Definitely dark and slow as Budrew observed. Brilliant writing! Authentic.

Marco

When I went to the CD store to buy one of hers, after having heard a cut I couldn't remember the title of on the radio, I stood at the rack trying to decide whether to go for "Hell Among the Yearlings" or "The Revelator" since I didn't know anything about either one.

One of the guys who works there happened by and I asked him which one he would recommend. He said, "Doesn't matter, if you buy one you're going to come back and get the other." He was right.

I started with "Hell..." and have all the rest. When I saw a 14 minute song "I Dream A Highway" on Revelator, the reaction was no way. But it hangs together and is quite...harrowing.

Loaned "Revival" to my parents (age 77 & 72) about 5 years ago and my mom's reaction was "They play music like this...by choice?" She was floored when I said "Yeah and they wrote it too." For people so young, they thought they were playing Depression era music.

Would love to see 'em live. Yeow!

I love Gillian Welch. Revival is a killer album. Also worth checking out is the version of Beulah Land she does on Avalon Blues, the Mississippi John Hurt tribute album.