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Photo – Alysse Gafkjen

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“Just another masterpiece” – Spectrum Magazine – The Age \ Sydney Morning Herald

“The long-running Nashville duo offers new sonic moods and narrative modes on a fantastic LP… Welch and Rawlings have more to say than ever.” – Rolling Stone

“The intuitive bond between the two musicians remains at the forefront of their terrific new album, full of quiet adventures and clear empathy.” – Pitchfork

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Ahead of their 2025 Australian Tour,  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, whom the New York Times has hailed as “American folk masters,” release their GRAMMY-nominated, 10th studio album Woodland on vinyl and CD.

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, is dedicated to producing the highest quality vinyl records available, using state of the art Pheenix Alpha and Viryl presses and the experience of some of the greatest record pressing engineers and record producers in the business. Woodland is available now on all formats HERE.

They will tour Australia in early 2025, playing three shows at the Sydney Opera House – January 23, 24 and 25 and five shows at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – January 28, 29, 30, 31 and February 2nd. Tickets are available at HERE

Last week, Welch and Rawlings were nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY for Woodland, as well as the Best Americana Performance GRAMMY for “Empty Trainload of Sky” off the album. The duo has previously won two Grammys, 2021’s Best Folk Album for All The Good Times (2020) and the 2002 Album Of The Year Grammy for O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Soundtrack. This is their 9th Grammy nomination in total.

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 all tied together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism and cements the pair’s iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music. Woodland is the duo’s first album since 2020’s All the Good Times, a collection of covers and classic folk songs which earned the duo the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album, and their first album of new original music since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack.

Woodland is available on Vinyl, CD and Digitally HERE

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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Woodland 2025 Australian Tour

January 23 – Sydney Opera House – Selling fast
January 24 – Sydney Opera House – Selling fast
January 25 – Sydney Opera House – SOLD OUT
January 28 – Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – Selling fast
January 29 – Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – Selling fast
January 30 – Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – SOLD OUT
January 31 – Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – SOLD OUT
February 2 – Melbourne’s Hamer Hall – Selling fast

Tickets are available at www.lovepolice.com.au

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Follow GILLIAN WELCH
& DAVID RAWLINGS
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