Gillian Welch

Sue McLean & Associates presents Gillian Welch at the Fitzgerald Theater on Wednesday, July 20th at 7:30 p.m. Gillian Welch is an uncompromising musical renegade with four critically acclaimed albums and a Grammy Award under her belt. Writing and performing with her longtime partner, David Rawlings, they present their haunting songs like rock and roll chamber music, with two acoustic guitars and two voices welded together. Their tunes have been covered by such American legends as Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Solomon Burke. Their music defies easy categorization — it embraces, and is in turn embraced by, the pre-eminent ambassadors of folk, bluegrass, R & B, punk, and rock and roll. Tough her first two albums, 1996’s debut Revival and 1998’s Hell Among the Yearlings (both produced by T Bone Burnett) captured a reminiscent, earthy Americana, it was her third album, 2001’s Rawlings-produced Time (The Revelator) that marked her divergence towards a skeletal kind of rock and roll. Welch considers her most recent album, 2003’s Soul Journey, as "more like little R&B songs that have been pared down to the bone." Welch and Rawlings continue to write and record for an upcoming release and hit the road with a stop at the Fitzgerald Theater.