The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the 'we' becomes existential.
, the new album by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, is the latest in a long collaboration between two musicians who have built careers — and an influential legacy — out of the magnetic interplay between their voices and the strength of their musical ideas.
A boxcar tricks the eye. Atop its spinning wheels, no cargo, just the bones of a freight framing the heavens, shot through with blue. This is how the new album from Gillian Welch and David Rawlings begins: with an illusory window to the beyond. “Empty Trainload of Sky” is an acoustic rock and roll miniature — the kind Welch and Rawlings perfected on their 2001 masterpieceand have deliberately augmented with two guitars, two voices, tension, grace and resolve ever since.
Welch and Rawlings met in the early ’90s on line to audition for the only country ensemble at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. They began dating, but after school was over, Welch took off for Nashville. Some weeks later, at summer’s end, Rawlings moved down, too.
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