FRESH AIR

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ long-awaited collaboration The Harrow and the Harvest came out in June, marking an almost eight-year wait for fans of their 2003 album Soul Journey. The 10 songs that make up the new album deal with some heavy subjects: identity, loss, unfulfilled expectations, death and desperation. “We’ve kind of half-jokingly said that this record is 10 different kinds of sad,” Welch tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “And there are 10 songs on it.” On today’s Fresh Air, Welch and Rawlings perform an in-studio concert featuring several songs from The Harrow and the Harvest, and discuss many of the lyrics they’ve written over the years. MORE

PREVIOUSLY: The Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Acony Records is excited to announce the second leg of tour dates for Gillian Welch.  Welch and David Rawlings will tour through the fall, making stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York City, culminating at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.  This will be the second leg of her North American tour supporting the long-awaited release of her new album, The Harrow & The Harvest, which debuted at #20 on Billboard.  Rolling Stone hailed, “Welch sounds as haunting and beautiful as ever.”  The full itinerary is listed below. The response to The Harrow & The Harvest has been fantastic, recognized by Paste Magazine as “one of the richest, most expansive roots albums to be released in some time.”  New York Daily News deemed Welch a “national treasure…the ultimate pin-up girl for the Americana movement,” while The Los Angeles Times admired the record’s “lilting voices, vivid lyrical twists and crisp acoustic flourishes.” The Associated Press was enthralled by the album’s “10 songs that suspend time and reduce the entire world to a bare, slat-floored room,” and American Songwriter praised the new songs as “defiantly spare and spectral.” Tour dates after the jump…

Thu Jul-07 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre                  

Sat Jul-09 – Grants Pass, OR – Rogue Theatre                            

Sun Jul-10 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre

Tue Jul-12 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater                           

Wed Jul-13 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre                               

Fri Jul-15 – Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Folk Festival                

Sat Jul-16 – Olympia, WA – Capitol Theatre               

Sun Jul-17 – Missoula, MT – Wilma Theater   

Mon Jul-18 – Bozeman, MT – Emerson Center               

Wed Jul-20 – St. Paul, MN – Fitzgerald Theater                         

Thu Jul-21 – Madison, WI – Capitol Theatre               

Fri Jul-22 – Chicago, IL – VIC Theatre                         

Sat Jul-23 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre

Mon Jul-25 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Hall  

Sat Jul-30 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival                  

Tue Aug-02 – Bethesda, MD – Music Center at Strathmore     

Wed Aug-03 – Raleigh, NC – North Carolina Museum of Art  

Thu Aug-04 – Winston-Salem, NC  – Ziggy’s             

Fri Aug-05 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel    

Sat Aug-06 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse        

Thu Aug-11 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitinas Uptown                             

Fri Aug-12 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Soundstage          

Sat Aug-13 – Huntsville, AL – Von Braun Center Concert Hall

Sun Aug-14 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre                             

Wed Aug-17  – Roanoke, VA – Jefferson Cent/Shaftman Performance Hall

Thu Aug-18 – Charlottesville, VA – Paramount Theatre             

Fri Aug-19 – Richmond, VA – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden  

Sat Aug-20 – Charlotte, NC – Knight Theater at Levine Cent. for the Arts 

Sun Aug-21 – Greenville, SC – Peace Center Concert Hall             

Tue Aug-23 – Bristol, VA – Paramount Center for the Arts 

Wed Aug-24 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theater  

Fri Aug-26 – Boone, NC – Farthing Auditorium           

Sat Aug-27 – Wilmington, NC – Winoca Festival – Battleship Park     

Sun Aug-28 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall                      

Tue Aug-30 – Louisville, KY – Brown Theatre

Wed Aug-31 – Cincinnati, OH – Moonlite Gardens Amphitheatre

Thu Sep-01 – Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird

Sat Sep-03 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant

Sun Sep-04 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall

Tue Sep-06 – Boulder, CO – Chautauqua Auditorium

Wed Sep-07 – Arvada, CO – Arvada Center

Fri Sep-09 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kingsbury Hall 

Sat Sep-17 – Austin, TX – ACL Festival

Wed Sep-28 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriets

Thu Sep-29 – Los Angeles, CA – Music Box @ Fonda

Sat Oct-01 – San Francisco, CA – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Wed Oct-12 – Wichita, KS – Orpheum Theatre

Thu Oct-13 – Lincoln, NE – Rococo Theatre

Fri Oct-14 – Des Moines, IA – The Hoyt Sherman Place

Mon Oct-17 – Grand Rapids, MI – Covenant Fine Arts Center at Calvin College

Tue Oct-18 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage

Wed Oct-19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Byham Theater

Thu Oct-20 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer

Sat Oct-22 – New York, NY- Beacon Theater

Sun Oct-23 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre

Tue Oct-25 – Montreal, QC – Le National

Wed Oct-26 – Burlington, VT – Flynn Center

Thu Oct-27 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre

Sat Nov 26 – Portsmouth, NH – Music Hall

Sun Nov-27 – Portland, ME – State Theatre

Mon Nov-28 – Northampton, MA – Calvin Theater

Thu Dec-01 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium 

Visit gillianwelch.com for up to the minute tour dates and album news.