Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Return To NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS RETURN TO NPR’S TINY DESK CONCERT
WATCH HERE
GRAMMY-WINNING 10TH STUDIO ALBUM WOODLAND OUT NOW
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
“The intuitive bond between the two musicians remains at the forefront of their terrific new album, full of quiet adventures and clear empathy.”
- Pitchfork
"The long-running Nashville duo offers new sonic moods and narrative modes on a fantastic LP… Welch and Rawlings have more to say than ever.”
- Rolling Stone
Today, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” returned to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert to perform the songs “Empty Trainload Of Sky,” “Lawman,” and “Hashtag” off their 10th studio album Woodland , as well as their celebrated song “Revelator” off their 2001 album, Time (The Revelator). The performance served as victory lap for the duo who recently won the 2025 Best Folk Album GRAMMY for Woodland, performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and recently wrapped a 34-date headlining tour. Watch Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert here.
Welch and Rawlings have two upcoming festival dates before their tour of Texas in August. Their upcoming concerts in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio will be their first shows in Texas since 2018. In October they’ll tour the UK and Ireland. Tickets for all dates are on sale here.
Welch and Rawlings’ 10th studio album, Woodland , is out now on all formats. 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 the duo’s 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.
The vinyl edition of Woodland is mastered by David Rawlings directly from the original analog master tapes to his custom Neumann VMS-80 lathe. Acony Records is proud to be partnering with the all-new Paramount Pressing & Plating, a joint venture between Rawlings and esteemed plating craftsman Gary Salstrom, to produce superior vinyl records. Paramount Pressing, located in Denver, CO and built from the ground up from Salstrom's specifications, is dedicated to producing the highest quality vinyl records available, using state of the art Pheenix Alpha and Vinyl presses and the experience of some of the greatest record pressing engineers and record producers in the business.
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS- WOODLAND TRACK LISTING
Empty Trainload Of SkyWhat We HadLawmanThe Bells And The BirdsNorth CountryHashtagThe Day The Mississippi DiedTurf The GamblerHere Stands A WomanHowdy Howdy
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS TOUR DATES
Sat Jul 12, 2025 Winnipeg Folk Festival Winnipeg, MB
Sat Jul 26, 2025 Red Ants Pants Music Festival White Sulphur Springs, MT
Fri Aug 15, 2025 Cullen Performance Hall Houston, TX
Sat Aug 16, 2025 Majestic Theatre Dallas, TX
Mon Aug 18, 2025 The Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
Tue Aug 19, 2025 The Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
Wed Aug 20, 2025 Stable Hall San Antonio, TX
Wed Oct 22, 2025 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland
Thu Oct 23, 2025 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland
Sat Oct 25, 2025 O2 Apollo Manchester Manchester, UK
Sun Oct 26, 2025 The London Palladium London, England
Mon Oct 27, 2025 The London Palladium London, England
Wed Oct 29, 2025 Royal Concert Hall Glasgow, Scotland
PRESS PHOTO CREDIT: ALYSSE GAFKJEN
WATCH HERE
GRAMMY-WINNING 10TH STUDIO ALBUM WOODLAND OUT NOW
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
“The intuitive bond between the two musicians remains at the forefront of their terrific new album, full of quiet adventures and clear empathy.”
- Pitchfork
"The long-running Nashville duo offers new sonic moods and narrative modes on a fantastic LP… Welch and Rawlings have more to say than ever.”
- Rolling Stone
Today, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” returned to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert to perform the songs “Empty Trainload Of Sky,” “Lawman,” and “Hashtag” off their 10th studio album Woodland , as well as their celebrated song “Revelator” off their 2001 album, Time (The Revelator). The performance served as victory lap for the duo who recently won the 2025 Best Folk Album GRAMMY for Woodland, performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and recently wrapped a 34-date headlining tour. Watch Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert here.
Welch and Rawlings have two upcoming festival dates before their tour of Texas in August. Their upcoming concerts in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio will be their first shows in Texas since 2018. In October they’ll tour the UK and Ireland. Tickets for all dates are on sale here.
Welch and Rawlings’ 10th studio album, Woodland , is out now on all formats. 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 the duo’s 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.
The vinyl edition of Woodland is mastered by David Rawlings directly from the original analog master tapes to his custom Neumann VMS-80 lathe. Acony Records is proud to be partnering with the all-new Paramount Pressing & Plating, a joint venture between Rawlings and esteemed plating craftsman Gary Salstrom, to produce superior vinyl records. Paramount Pressing, located in Denver, CO and built from the ground up from Salstrom's specifications, is dedicated to producing the highest quality vinyl records available, using state of the art Pheenix Alpha and Vinyl presses and the experience of some of the greatest record pressing engineers and record producers in the business.
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS- WOODLAND TRACK LISTING
Empty Trainload Of SkyWhat We HadLawmanThe Bells And The BirdsNorth CountryHashtagThe Day The Mississippi DiedTurf The GamblerHere Stands A WomanHowdy Howdy
GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS TOUR DATES
Sat Jul 12, 2025 Winnipeg Folk Festival Winnipeg, MB
Sat Jul 26, 2025 Red Ants Pants Music Festival White Sulphur Springs, MT
Fri Aug 15, 2025 Cullen Performance Hall Houston, TX
Sat Aug 16, 2025 Majestic Theatre Dallas, TX
Mon Aug 18, 2025 The Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
Tue Aug 19, 2025 The Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
Wed Aug 20, 2025 Stable Hall San Antonio, TX
Wed Oct 22, 2025 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland
Thu Oct 23, 2025 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland
Sat Oct 25, 2025 O2 Apollo Manchester Manchester, UK
Sun Oct 26, 2025 The London Palladium London, England
Mon Oct 27, 2025 The London Palladium London, England
Wed Oct 29, 2025 Royal Concert Hall Glasgow, Scotland
PRESS PHOTO CREDIT: ALYSSE GAFKJEN
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