Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced their first new album in four years. It’s called Woodland, and it’s set for release on August 23 via the couple’s Acony Records. The follow-up to the 2020 covers LP All the Good Times was recorded at their own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville. Check out the new song ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’ below.
“Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years,” the folk duo shared in a statement. “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.”
Woodland Cover Artwork:
Woodland Tracklist:
1. Empty Trainload of Sky
2. What We Had
3. Lawman
4. The Bells And The Birds
5. North Country
6. Hashtag
7. The Day The Mississippi Died
8. Turf The Gambler
9. Here Stands a Woman
10. Howdy Howdy