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Guitar World
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Glenn Kimpton

“I wanted to capture that destruction and endurance”: A devastating tornado threatened to tear apart Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ beloved studio. Now they’ve documented the natural disaster – and their Nashville rebirth – on a new album

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

The long-awaited new album of original material from Gillian Welch and David Rawlings comes 13 years after they worked together in a co-writing capacity on The Harrow & the Harvest and four years since cover album All The Good Times (Are Past & Gone) was released in July 2020.

Just a few months before that, in March 2020, the pair’s historic Nashville studio was torn apart by the devastating tornado that hit the city – and now this 10-track album, produced by Rawlings, is something of a celebration of the return to their beloved space. “That whole experience and the aftermath definitely changed things,” begins David.

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