Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will embark on a UK tour in November in support of The Harrow & The Harvest. These will be the first Gillian Welch UK dates since 2004.  Tickets will go on sale on Fri Sept 2 with dates as follows:

Sat Nov 12            

Brighton Dome

Sun Nov 13          

Warwick Arts Centre

Fri Nov 18             

Belfast Waterfront Auditorium

Sun Nov 20          

Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

Mon Nov 21       

Manchester Apollo

Wed Nov 23       

London Hammersmith Apollo

The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony Records/Warner Brothers Records), the new album by Gillian Welch, was released in June and features ten new songs recorded at her own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and produced by David Rawlings.  A single featuring Silver Dagger and Tennessee, taken from the album will be released on October 10.

The Harrow & The Harvest, “is a new Southern sound,” writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, “with the sort of songs you wouldn’t be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia;  Songs you’d expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening.  Songs with the wry humour of the back porch.  Listen to this record with the lights low.  Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.” 

Uncut Magazine’s Album of the Month review called The Harrow & The Harvest a “timeless country classic, this is Welch’s most ruggedly traditional work yet,” and closes by lamenting, “The only thing wrong with a Gillian Welch album is that she makes so damn few of them.”

                Welch and Rawlings met at Berklee College of Music in Boston.  Together, they moved to

Nashville, TN, where most of their work has been produced. Since then, they have influenced and inspired new generations of country and folk singers, songwriters and players. They have earned the slavish admiration of many of the most lauded and loved voices of the Americana milieu, and had their songs recorded by the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Solomon Burke.

“This is American folk music at its very best.”

  Daily Telegraph

“It’s no hyperbole to say that it goes straight to the upper echelon of the pantheon presided over by Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.”  The Mail On Sunday

“..a classic of the genre.”  The Observer

“The familiar blending of traditional sounds and moods with modern sensibilities is effortlessly sustained…..a haunting beauty..”   The Independent

“There are times when some drip wanders into view strumming a guitar that one curses Bob Dylan for unleashing singer-songwriters on the world. But then Gillian Welch comes along and the droning of lesser singer-songwriters is instantly forgotten.”  Financial Times

“Get this locked in a time capsule now so that future generations can understand how Welch and Rawlings put down the marker for folk music in the 21^st century”  Scotland on Sunday

“It’s a brilliant record; probably her best.”

  OUTSTANDING, The Independent on Sunday – CD OF THE WEEK

“The songs are classic and timeless…the sheer focus is heart-stopping”  THE INDEPENDENT INFORMATION

CD OF THE WEEK, Sunday Times

“One very special album.”  The Sun

“Radiant.”  Daily Mirror

“It’s as simple as music gets, and as beautiful”

 Evening Standard

“Now, at last, comes this brave, minimalist set of new songs that sound as if they have been around for ages”  The Guardian