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Ending an eight-year recording break that set in soon after Gillian Welch’s profile-boosting appearance in O Brother, Where Art thou?, The Harrow and the Harvest marks a lovely return.
Simplicity is often the hardest thing to achieve, and it’s a challenge this wistful singer-songwriter has always embraced. In fact, her 2011 album revisits the austerity of the Grammy-nominated, horribly-titled Time (The Revelator) after a rare outburst of optimism and full-band arrangements on 2003’s Soul Journey.
It’s no bread-and-water diet, though. Welch’s partner and producer David Rawlings conjures a rich soundscape with just acoustic guitars and voices, and as her fingerpicking...
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