Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Share New Song “Hashtag”

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS SHARE NEW SONG “HASHTAG” WOODLAND, THEIR 10th STUDIO ALBUM, OUT AUGUST 23rd VIA ACONY RECORDS   ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES IN CITIES INCLUDING SAXAPAHAW, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, AND MORE TICKETS ON SALE HERE   ALBUM ART PHOTO CREDIT: ALYSSE GAFKJEN “There’s that harmony blend that no-one else can achieve besides these two. They are so influential...” -NPR Music   “…modern masters of American folk.” - Pitchfork   “The protectors of the American folk song.” - Rolling Stone   Today, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” share their new song “Hashtag” from their 10th studio album, Woodland, which will be released via their label, Acony Records digitally on August 23rd. Said Welch about the new song: “We wrote Hashtag for Guy Clark. Guy taught us what it was like on the road. He took us out opening for him all over the states, to our first shows in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and South Carolina. He showed us the parallel universe of the troubadour.” The song follows the album’s first single “Empty Trainload Of Sky.” Listen to Hashtag here.   Today, Welch and Rawlings announce additional tour dates in Saxapahaw, Philadelphia, Baltimore and more. They will also headline previously announced shows in September and October in cities including St Paul, Kansas City, Atlanta, and more (full dates below). These upcoming dates will be some of their first public performances since appearing on 2019’s Oscars, with the pair to announce additional dates throughout 2024 and 2025. The new dates will go on sale on Friday, Aug 16 at 10am local here, and previously announce dates are on sale now here.   Woodland was named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio they said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.” The new 10-song collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism and cements the pair’s iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music.   Woodland is their first album since 2020’s All the Good Times, a collection of covers and classic folk songs which earned the duo the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album, and their first album of new original music since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack. Pre-order or pre-save Woodland here. Vinyl and CD are available to preorder today from the Acony Records Online Store, and the album will be available worldwide on all formats later this fall. Welch and Rawlings returned to Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI where they closed the festival main stage at the historic Newport Folk Festival. Rolling Stone said of the set: “the two singers presented a career-spanning set that leaned heavily on never-before-heard material from the duo’s forthcoming album Woodland. However daring a decision it was to debut this hushed new material during a headlining festival set, Rawlings and Welch earned it many times over… by the time Rawlings played his signature medley of “I Hear Them All” and “This Land Is Your Land,” the duo was receiving the type of rapturous response they deserved.”     GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS- WOODLAND TRACK LISTING   Empty Trainload Of Sky What We Had Lawman The Bells And The Birds North Country Hashtag The Day The Mississippi Died Turf The Gambler Here Stands A Woman Howdy Howdy   GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS TOUR DATES (NEW DATES IN BOLD) Sept 04 – Bowling Green, KY at SKyPAC  Sept 05 – Bloomington, IN at The Bluebird  Sept 06 – Evanston, IL at Cahn Auditorium SOLD OUT Sept 08 – Madison, WI at The Orpheum Theater  Sept 09 – St Paul, MN at The Fitzgerald Theater  Sept 10 – St Paul, MN at The Fitzgerald Theater  Sept 12 – Des Moines, IA at Hoyt Sherman Place  Sept 14 – La Vista, NE at The Astro Sept 15 – Kansas City, MO at Folly Theater  Sept 16 – St Louis, MO at The Sheldon SOLD OUT Oct 13 – Birmingham, AL at The Lyric Theatre SOLD OUT Oct 14 – Atlanta, GA at Atlanta Symphony Hall  Oct 15 – Charlotte, NC at Knight Theater Oct 17 – Boone, NC at The Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts (On Sale Soon) Oct 18 – Knoxville, TN at Bijou Theatre SOLD OUT Oct 19 – Asheville, NC at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium  Oct 21 – Charleston, SC at Charleston Music Hall  Oct 23 – Saxapahaw, NC at Haw River Ballroom SOLD OUT Oct 24 – Saxapahaw, NC at Haw River Ballroom SOLD OUT Oct 25 – Saxapahaw, NC at Haw River Ballroom Nov 20 – Louisville, KY at The Brown Theatre Nov 21 – Cincinnati, OH at Taft Theatre  Nov 22 – Detroit, MI at The Masonic Temple  Nov 23 – Akron, OH at Goodyear Theater  Nov 25 – Pittsburgh, PA at Byham Theater Nov 26 – Ithaca, NY at State Theatre of Ithaca Nov 27 – Troy, NY at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall  Nov 30 – Kingston, NY at Ulster Performing Arts Center Dec 1 – Boston, MA at The Wilbur SOLD OUT Dec 02 – Concord, NH at Chubb Theatre Dec 3 – Portland, ME at State Theatre SOLD OUT Dec 5 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre Dec 06 – Philadelphia, PA at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts – Zellerbach Auditorium  Dec 07 – Baltimore, MD at The Lyric Baltimore Dec 08 – Tysons, VA at Capital One Hall