{"id":2614,"date":"2011-07-26T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:20:10","slug":"gillian-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/gillian-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"GILLIAN WELCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2615\" title=\"GILLIAN-WELCH-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GILLIAN-WELCH-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GILLIAN-WELCH-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GILLIAN-WELCH-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>G<\/strong><strong>ILLIAN WELCH<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The Harrow &amp; The Harvest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Acony]<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been eight years since the release of Gillian Welch and partner David Rawlings\u2019 last album, <em>Soul Journey<\/em>, but the darkly written, starkly sung songs on <em>The Harrow &amp; The Harvest<\/em> are entirely worth the wait. Welch and Rawlings are the only players on this all-acoustic set, their voices often harmonizing in mournful modal fourths and Rawlings\u2019 guitar winding its way around Welch\u2019s studiously unadorned rhythm. With their patented neo-Appalachian sound, the duo describes what Rawlings calls \u201c10 different kinds of sad\u201d from the elegantly beautiful \u201cDark Turn of Mind\u201d to the jaunty yet elegiac ballad \u201cThe Way It Goes.\u201d Rather than cast a pall over the proceedings, that sadness fleshes out and illuminates the characters in these songs. <em>The Harrow &amp; The Harvest<\/em> is a deeply felt collection of Southern Gothic tales that dares you to inspect these characters up close, and makes you all the richer for having made the effort. \u2014Bob Cannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILLIAN WELCH The Harrow &amp; The Harvest [Acony] It\u2019s been eight years since the release of Gillian Welch and partner David Rawlings\u2019 last album, Soul Journey, but the darkly written, starkly sung songs on The Harrow &amp; The Harvest are entirely worth the wait. Welch and Rawlings are the only players on this all-acoustic set, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2069,196,2065,1636,2067,2066,2068],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}