Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, announce their “Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Play Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning” tour. Welch shares about the new tour dates, “The Grateful Dead flirted with acoustic music throughout their career, until they released the Reckoning album, 45 years ago. We have flirted with Grateful Dead music throughout our career, until this anniversary was suggested as a good reason to book these shows. We know the Dead’s music is a mountain, and we’re hoping to start up from base camp this Spring in celebration of their legacy.” The 6-date April tour will include three shows at Port Chester, NY’s The Capitol Theatre, two dates at Oakland, CA’s Fox Theater and one show at New Orleans, LA’s Saenger Theatre. Additionally, the duo will return to Newport Folk Festival, where they closed the festival in 2024, to perform their “Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning” show on July 25th.

Welch and Rawlings’ 10th studio album, Woodland, is out now on all formats. Woodland was named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio, they said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do and has been for the last twenty some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.”

The new 10-song collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances. Woodland is the duo’s first album since 2020’s All the Good Times, a collection of covers and classic folk songs, and their first album of new original music since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack. The vinyl edition of Woodland is mastered by David Rawlings directly from the original analog master tapes to his custom Neumann VMS-80 lathe. Acony Records is proud to be partnering with the all-new Paramount Pressing & Plating, a joint venture between Rawlings and esteemed plating craftsman Gary Salstrom, to produce superior vinyl records. Paramount Pressing, located in Denver, CO and built from the ground up from Salstrom’s specifications.

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS
WOODLAND
TRACK LISTING

Empty Trainload Of Sky
What We Had
Lawman
The Bells And The Birds
North Country
Hashtag
The Day The Mississippi Died
Turf The Gambler
Here Stands A Woman
Howdy Howdy

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS PLAY GRATEFUL DEAD ACOUSTIC RECKONING TOUR DATES

April 9 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
April 10 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
April 11 – Port Chester, NY at The Capitol Theatre
April 17 – Oakland, CA at Fox Theater
April 18 – Oakland, CA at Fox Theater
April 23 – New Orleans, LA at Saenger Theatre
July 25 – Newport, RI at Newport Folk Festival

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