Gillian Welch To Release The Harrow & The Harvest On Vinyl July 28th Via Acony Records

GILLIAN WELCH TO RELEASE THE HARROW & THE HARVEST ON VINYL JULY 28TH VIA ACONY RECORDS PREMIERES MUSIC VIDEO FOR “DARK TURN OF MIND” ON ROLLING STONE COUNTRY THE HARROW & THE HARVEST ALBUM TOUR AND DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE TOUR CONFIRMED ACONY RECORDS & GILLIAN WELCH NOMINATED FOR THREE A2IM LIBERA AWARDS

“It is a splendid record, full of intricacies and deep feeling and subtle associations and turns of mind.”  –New Yorker “…a slow, sad, lovely, meditative collection of songs in which their voices intertwine with characteristic grace.”  –NPR “…love stories with doomy country atmospheres; simple but very, very careful…” –The New York Times

Gillian Welch’s 2011 album, the GRAMMY-nominated The Harrow & The Harvest, described by the Washington Post as “Welch...at her haunting, heart-aching best,” will be released for the first time ever on vinyl via her own Acony Records on July 28th. Of the process Gillian Welch reveals, "We have been working and waiting 20 years to bring you our music on phonograph record. It took a while, because we wanted to do it the right way, the absolute best way humanly possible, and I believe that's what we've done. No sonic stone was left unturned, no nuance let fall by the wayside. There is honestly nothing else I can imagine hoping to hear out of the original tapes. It is all there in the groove. As people whose lives were changed by the sound of music coming off turntables, we humbly invite you to include us in your record collection." The single LP will be packaged in an "Old Style" tip-on gatefold jacket with custom paper and will include full color cover art by artist John Dyer Baizley, also of the group Baroness, as well as a printed sleeve, and full lyric insert. The album was mastered directly from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed on standard-weight audiophile-quality vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and can be pre-ordered here. This morning, Rolling Stone Country premiered the music video for Gillian Welch’s “Dark Turn Of Mind,” off The Harrow & The Harvest, calling it “spectacularly haunting”. The video features never before seen footage and you can watch it here. Today, Gillian Welch also announces tour dates throughout the summer. Between July 29th and August 7th Welch and her musical partner Dave Rawlings will perform TheHarrow & The Harvest in its entirety in cities including New York City, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and Nashville. The duo, accompanied by a full band, will also perform as Dave Rawlings Machine in cities including St. Paul, Bloomington, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago (full dates below). Tickets for these shows will go on sale on Friday, May 12th at 10:00 AM Local Time (with the exception of NYC, which will go on sale at 9AM ET, and Minneapolis & Madison, which will go on sale at 12PM ET) and can be purchased here. <5 nbsp="" strong=""> Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have recorded 7 studio albums and have lent their talents to countless fellow artists’ recordings. In recognition of their remarkable career, Welch and Rawlings were honored with the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2015 and the Berklee American Masters Award in 2016. THE HARROW & THE HARVEST TRACK LIST: 1. Scarlet Town       2. Dark Turn of Mind 3. The Way It Will Be 4. The Way It Goes 5. Tennessee 6. Down Along the Dixie Line 7. Six White Horses 8. Hard Times 9. Silver Dagger 10. The Way the Whole Thing Ends “The Harrow & The Harvest” Tour Dates – Tickets at http://gillianwelch.com/tour/ July 30 /// Charlottesville VA /// Sprint Pavilion July 31 /// Washington DC /// Kennedy Center August 2 /// New York, NY  /// Beacon Theatre August 4 /// Charlotte, NC /// Knight Theater August 5 /// Atlanta, GA /// Atlanta Symphony Hall August 7 /// Nashville, TN /// Ryman Auditorium Dave Rawlings Machine Tour Dates – Tickets at http://www.daverawlingsmachine.com/tour/ August 16 /// Louisville, KY /// WL Lyons Brown Theatre August 17 /// St. Louis, MO /// Sheldon Concert Hall August 18 /// Kansas City, MO /// Folly Theater August 20 /// Lyons, CO /// Rocky Mountain Folks Festival August 23 /// Minneapolis, MN /// Pantages Theatre August 24 /// Madison, WI /// The Capitol Theater August 25 /// Chicago, IL /// Thalia Hall August 26 /// Bloomington, IN /// The Bluebird