12/03/2021

Gillian Welch’s All The Good Times Available On Vinyl Today

GILLIAN WELCH’S ALL THE GOOD TIMES AVAILABLE ON VINYL TODAY
WINNER OF THE 2021 GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST FOLK ALBUM
BOOTS NO. 2: THE LOST SONGS BOX SET OUT NOW VIA ACONY RECORDS- AVAILABLE HERE

 

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings’s All The Good Times, winner of the 2021 Grammy for “Best Folk Album,” is available on vinyl today. The collection of ten acoustic covers, recorded at home on a reel-to-reel, contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten, and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional songs (full tracklisting below), and is the first Welch/Rawlings collaboration to feature both of their names on the cover. The album was previously pressed to vinyl as a very limited run which sold out immediately. This new reissue will have revised art and packaging and be available via all retail channels in the US and Canada for the first time, with availability worldwide in 2022. The album is available on CD and vinyl here.

Recently, Gillian Welch released the physical box set for Boots 2: The Lost Songs. The setavailable in vinyl or CD editions, contains the complete collection of their newly unearthed and celebrated cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings from the vault of Welch and Rawlings. The box set includes deluxe packaging, 48 songs on 3 CDs or 3 LPs and a special 66-page songbook with photos, lyrics, and guitar chords for all 48 tracks. Purchase CD and vinyl box sets exclusively at gillianwelch.comBoots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 -3 are available digitally here.
 
Recent Critical Praise for Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

“…American Folk Masters…”
“ If you are Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, there’s a sense almost of predestination, as if you were traveling toward each other all along.”
-The New York Times

“There’s that harmony blend that no-one else can achieve besides these two.
They are so influential...”
-NPR Music

“This archival trove cements the singer-songwriter and her steadfast partner, David Rawlings, as modern masters of American folk.”
- Pitchfork

“The protectors of the American folk song.”
- Rolling Stone

“…mighty good new tracks…”
- Stereogum
 
“American auteurs...”
-The Wall Street Journal

“Fans of Gillian Welch have been rewarded for their customary patience with an abundance of albums released in 2020.”
-The Bluegrass Situation

The New York Times Magazine ran their interview with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and say of the pair: “The best duos and duet singers understand that creating harmony is sometimes a series of musical negotiations, sometimes a series of personal negotiations, sometimes both… If you are Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, there’s a sense almost of predestination, as if you were traveling toward each other all along.” Read the full interview here.
 
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- All The Good Times Track Listing
1. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Elizabeth Cotten)
2. Señor (Bob Dylan)
3. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (Trad. arr. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
4. Hello In There (John Prine)
5. Poor Ellen Smith (Trad. arr. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
6. All The Good Times Are Past And Gone (Trad. arr. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
7. Ginseng Sullivan (Norman Blake)
8. Abandoned Love (Bob Dylan)
9. Jackson (Jerry Leiber, Billy Wheeler)
10. Y'all Come (Arlie Duff)
           
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