We’re thrilled to host Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in the record store on Friday, November 15th to celebrate the release of Woodland! The album hits record shops that day and they’ll be hanging out with us that afternoon, meeting fans and signing copies of Woodland for attendees. Preorder a copy of Woodland on vinyl or CD in the record shop or from our site here to secure a wristband necessary to participate in the album signing. This is an IN PERSON SIGNING ONLY. Wristbands are limited and are required for the signing for all 13+. (Kids 12 and under do not need a wristband when participating with a wristband holding adult).
Welch and Rawling’s longtime record label, Acony Records presents Woodland, the new album by Nashville’s preeminent songwriting team. Following up their homespun GRAMMY-winning release All The Good Times, this ambitious 10 song album mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo's signature sound and remarkable lyricism. Woodland was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Welch and Rawlings' newly rebuilt Woodland Sound Studio and cements the duo's iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music. The vinyl edition of Woodland was mastered by Rawlings himself, directly from the original analog master tapes to his custom Neumann VMS-80 lathe. The album was also produce by Rawlings.
Journalist Jenn Pelly wrote about Welch and Rawling’s new album for NPR and explains “Woodland is named for the storied East Nashville studio they have owned for 23 years and where, early in March 2020, a tornado of Biblical proportions tore off the roof and threatened to capsize the whole of their life’s work. The storm left the pair knee-deep in water and pitch-black darkness as they risked their earthly existences to save the materials constituting their musical ones. Amid the guitars and gear were the collected master tapes of their poised, literary songs dating back to the mid-1990s, when Welch and Rawlings began distilling 1930s country and sharp-angled brother-team bluegrass and rural folk into their own austere sonic grammar — alchemizing pain into transcendence, dissolving conventional time, putting Elvis and the Titanic into the same America as a five-band punk bill and blending harmonies so chilling they are said to have made Townes Van Zandt howl like a wolf.”
We’re so glad that Welch and Rawlings have given us new music this year and are over-the-moon to be able to host them in the record shop and celebrate Woodland with all of you! Preorder your copy at Grimey’s or on our site now and join us on Friday, November 15th for this very special occasion. This is a Woodland album signing only, where wristbands are required to participate and each participant can have up to two (2) copies of the album (vinyl and/or CD) signed. For parking info please check out our Parking FAQs. If you have questions about our event, please be sure to read over our Woodland preorder page too and then reach out with your questions to us here: grimeys [dot] records [at] gmail [dot] com
