Are we in a golden age for acoustic music? You’d just about have to think so, if you are privy to a couple of significant tours coming through California right now, one by the duo of Gillian Welch and ...

At Sunday's 67th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Nashville folk singers Gillian Welch and David Rawlings took home a Grammy Award. The pair won the best folk album Grammy for their August 2024 album ...

Two guitars. Two voices. Fifteen years since the duo last stopped by the Tiny Desk, not much has changed in how they present themselves, right down to their preferred guitar tuner. This is how it's ...

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have returned to NPR’s Music HQ in Washington, D.C. for their second Tiny Desk Concert. Fifteen years after they first joined behind Bob Boilen’s iconic desk, the ...

American folk icons Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are bringing their traditional sound to Spokane. For over 25 years, the pair have been writing and singing about the often forgotten hardships of ...

After Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980, John Paul Jones became a prolific backing musician and producer for artists like R.E.M., the Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Heart, and more. In 2004, Jones traveled ...

The Harrow and the Harvest, Gillian Welch’s first album in eight years, is 10 folk songs in the classic sense: tales of travelers, of everyday comforts and concerns—songs that work as still-life ...

In 2003, the alt-country hero Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings wrote a beautiful acoustic reverie called "I Made A Lovers Prayer," and Welch included it on her Rawlings-produced ...

Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz is not the first former small-time criminal to find personal salvation through music, but he is one of the most talented and distinctive. And ff his stage name, Fantastic ...