Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” announce 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.
