‘THE HARROW & THE HARVEST’

(ACONY RECORDS/WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS) OUT NOW

NEW SINGLE ‘SILVER DAGGER’ c/w ‘TENNESSEE’ RELEASED NOVEMBER 14th

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have added a show at Bristol Hippodrome on Tuesday 15^th November to their UK tour in November in support of The Harrow & The Harvest. Tickets on sale Wed Sept 21.  These are the first Gillian Welch UK dates since 2004.

Sat Nov 12           Brighton Dome (01273 709 709)

Sun Nov 13         Warwick Arts Centre (02476 524524)

Tue Nov 15          Bristol Hippodrome (0844 871 3012)

Fri Nov 18            Belfast Waterfront Auditorium (02890 334455)

Sun Nov 20         Glasgow Clyde Auditorium (0870 040 4000)

Mon Nov 21       Manchester O₂ Apollo (0844 477 7677)

Wed Nov 23       London HMV Hammersmith Apollo (0844 844 4748)

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 November 14th.

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.

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