David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
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David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist
- “Empty Trainload of Sky”
- “Hashtag”
- “Lawman”
- “Howdy Howdy”
When a twister touches down, the destruction will be brutal. Timber are uprooted and vans will be flung about like toys. Complete homes there one second are piles of rubble the following.
The 2020 Nashville twister was like this: lethal and devastating. One of many many losses that evening included Gillian Welch and David Rawling‘s East Nashville studio known as Woodland. However when the mud settled and the sky cleared, Welch and Rawlings had been nonetheless standing.
The pair, who’ve been making music collectively for many years, received the Grammy Award for finest people album in 2021 for the covers album they made collectively within the fast aftermath, known as All of the Good Instances (Are Previous & Gone). Their new album is their first of unique songs in a number of years. It is named Woodland, named after their studio, and on this session, the duo talks about rebuilding, about writing songs throughout turbulent instances, and so they additionally inform possibly the most effective story we have ever heard about successful a Grammy.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
