Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

The new record is Woodland.

From NPR: Almost all of Woodland‘s songs of loss and resilience were penned after the flood, tracked in the rebuilt studio with clarified stakes. Between them, Welch and Rawlings have released eight previous albums of their original material (plus a 2020 collection of covers that set the likes of Bob Dylan’s “Abandoned Love” beside traditionals and won a Grammy). No matter the headliner, every record has been a collaboration built around those awe-inducing unison notes learned from a world long gone, which feel so corporally alive, you want to join them, “sing that rock and roll.” Still, the haunted duets of 2011’s The Harrow & the Harvest were the last new songs to bear Welch’s name on the cover. Enough time has passed to make the full-band, short-story songs of Woodland an event, a new beginning and a pillar befitting their increasingly towering stature in music. Though they have long contended that they’re members of a “two-piece band called Gillian Welch” — a decision instigated in part by their former record label, as women singer-songwriters were becoming a ’90s phenomenon — Woodland is the first album of originals attributed to Welch and Rawlings together.