Should Irvine bet up to $130 million on a new amphitheater? The main thing being it would just be very unusual for us to end a first set with something as retiring and down as ‘The Way The Whole Thing Ends.’ When we play that song in a normal show pretty much the only place we would put it would be in a second encore, a place where you can get really down and really quiet.” “We wouldn’t normally play a set of music crafted quite the way the album is put together. “It’s been really fascinating,” Welch says by phone from her home in Nashville recently. “The Harrow & the Harvest” arrived six years ago, an intimate, moving collection of songs that perfectly captures the beauty of what Welch has done for a little over 20 years now, blending folk and country and mountain music into something as timeless as it is fresh.Īnd because it’s only now getting a release on vinyl – she describes the start of recording career as falling in the awkward gap between the death and rebirth of that format – Welch jumped at Rawlings suggestion that they tour behind the re-release with a full-album show, another first for the duo. Gillian Welch comes to Los Angeles this week with her longtime musical partner David Rawlings on a tour that could be described as an album-release show at the Orpheum Theatre – for an album that, while her most recent, nonetheless came out in 2011.
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