Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - All the Good Times

The Guardian 0

(Acony Records)
The pandemic hangs heavy in the long-term duo’s first album to share joint billing, and thrives when Welch leads

Incredibly, Gillian Welch once played bass in a college goth band. But after an epiphany hearing bluegrass duo the Stanley Brothers, her music and image have been steeped in a nostalgic strain of Americana, from her rough-hewn 1996 debut Revival to this collection of reel-to-reel-recorded covers with Dave Rawlings, her long-term musical partner. Initially released on a short run of CDs after their Nashville studio was destroyed by a tornado at the start of lockdown, this release is the first to bear both their names.

All the Good Times is released on 5 March on Acony Records.