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Named after their Nashville studio – hit by a tornado in 2020 – the duo’s first album together in 13 years picks its impeccable, old-time way through personal and social upheaval
Traditional music is full of wild weather and woe. It’s discomfiting, but apt, that life should imitate art in the lives of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – two singing guitarists feted for their upholding of old musical forms.
Recipients of three Grammys and numerous other gongs over a 30-plus-years career, the Nashville-based couple’s most often record collaboratively, but under separate names. Their latest album is a duo record named after their studio – Woodland – where, in March 2020, a tornado tore most of the roof off just as Covid hit.