These days, Gillian Welch’s acoustic duo style is so iconic in the roots music world that it’s easy to forget that she started off very much as an alt-country musician. “Revival” is unmistakably a Gillian Welch album; nobody else warrants the adjective “timeless” quite the way that she does, and her one-of-a-kind vocals and songwriting style is already perfected on her debut, suggesting a devotion to her craft belying her young age. Yet “Revival” ... read more
Ok, ok so the Coen Brothers introduced me to her. So why should that be such a bad thing?