GILLIAN WELCH’S SOUL JOURNEY OUT TODAY ON VINYL VIA ACONY RECORDS

GILLIAN WELCH’S SOUL JOURNEY OUT TODAY ON VINYL VIA ACONY RECORDS

WELCH TO BE HONORED WITH UNC’S THOMAS WOLFE PRIZE ON OCTOBER 2^ND

CURRENTLY ON “AN EVENING WITH GILLIAN WELCH” TOUR

“There’s no contemporary artist who performs American roots music with more authenticity than Welch.” - Associated Press “Her smoky Appalachian porch moan has never sounded deeper, realer or sexier.”  –Entertainment Weekly “…it's pretty much perfect.”  –Mojo

Gillian Welch’s celebrated fourth studio album, 2003’s Soul Journey, is available today for the first time ever on vinyl via her own Acony Records. The long awaited first pressing of Soul Journey, which The A.V. Club hailed as “raw, spare, direct, and achingly pretty,” contains some of her most beloved songs, including “Look At Miss Ohio,” "Wayside/Back In Time” and “Wrecking Ball”. Of the release the duo say: “As with the analog version of The Harrow & The Harvest, this pressing reveals a wealth of fidelity and contains atmospheric nuances that were missing from the original CD release. The surprise here was how much these changes intensified the emotional experience of the album for us. It was like opening an old scrapbook and seeing the photos inside come to life. Soul Journey has finally arrived.” Soul Journey was mastered directly from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed on 150-gram audiophile-quality vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and can be purchased here.

Additionally, Welch will be honored by UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of English & Comparative Literature with the Thomas Wolfe Prize this fall. The Thomas Wolfe Prize recognizes contemporary writers with a distinguished body of work and honors the memory of one of UNC’s most famous alumni, Thomas Clayton Wolfe. Welch will be the first musician to ever receive the award. A free, ticketed public program is scheduled for Tuesday, October 2, 2018, on the UNC campus. More information about the ticketed public event can be found here.

Gillian Welch is currently on tour and will perform in cities including Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans and two dates in Saxapahaw, NC (full dates below). On this tour Gillian Welch and her musical partner, David Rawlings, will perform two full sets of music with no opener. Additionally, Gillian Welch will co-headline a Red Rocks Amphitheatre show with Punch Brothers on September 17th. Tickets for all dates are on sale now and can be purchased here.

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have recorded 8 studio albums and have lent their talents to countless fellow artists’ recordings. Recently, Welch & Rawlings released their latest collaboration, David Rawlings’s Poor David’s Almanack, a wry mixture of acoustic and electric music rich in ageless American vernacular. The album of ten new songs was engineered by studio wizards Ken Scott (Beatles, David Bowie) and Matt Andrews on analog tape during a week of sessions at legendary Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more about Poor David’s Almanack here. Additionally, 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.

SOUL JOURNEY TRACK LIST:
1. Look at Miss Ohio
2. Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
3. Wayside/Back in Time
4. I Had a Real Good Mother and Father
5. One Monkey
6. No One Knows My Name
7. Lowlands
8. One Little Song
9. I Made a Lovers Prayer
10. Wrecking Ball

“An Evening With Gillian Welch” Tour Dates – Tickets at http://gillianwelch.com/tour/
August 16 /// Germantown, TN /// Germantown Performing Arts Center
August 17 /// Hattiesburg, MS /// Hattiesburg Saenger Theater
August 18 /// Lafayette, LA /// Acadiana Center for the Arts [SOLD OUT]
August 19 /// New Orleans, LA /// Civic Theatre
August 22 /// Stafford, TX /// Stafford Centre
August 23 /// Dallas, TX /// Majestic Theatre
August 24 /// Oklahoma City, OK /// Tower Theatre
August 25 /// Fayetteville, AR /// Fayetteville Roots Festival **
September 13 /// St. Louis, MO /// The Sheldon Concert Hall [SOLD OUT]
September 14 /// Kansas City, MO /// Folly Theater
September 15 /// Salina, KS /// Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts
September 17 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre^&
September 28 /// Raleigh, NC /// Wide Open Bluegrass Festival**
October 03 /// Saxapahaw, NC /// Haw River Ballroom
October 04 /// Saxapahaw, NC /// Haw River Ballroom
October 05 /// Winston-Salem, NC /// The Ramkat
October 06 /// Arrington, VA /// The Festy Experience**
October 08 /// Cincinnati, OH ///  Taft Theatre
October 09 /// Goshen, IN /// Sauder Concert Hall


** Festival show
^& Co-headline w/ Punch Brothers