Gillian Welch

An influential figure in modern folk music, Gillian Welch writes songs that are rooted in rural Appalachian, country, and bluegrass traditions but timeless in their sense of craft and storytelling. Along with musical partner David Rawlings, she arrived amid the late-'90s roots scene with a voice and sensibility beyond her years and a pair of starkly beautiful albums in 1996's Revival and 1998's Hell Among the Yearlings. Bolstered by the popularity of the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, on which she appeared, Welch and Rawlings launched their own label and released 2001's...