1. Gillian Howard Welch is an American singer-songwriter.
20 Facts About Gillian Welch
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Gillian Welch appeared in the film attempting to buy a Soggy Bottom Boys record.
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Gillian Welch's biological mother was a freshman in college, and her father was a musician visiting New York City.
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Gillian Welch has speculated that her biological father could have been one of her favorite musicians, and she later discovered from her adoptive parents that he was a drummer.
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When Gillian Welch was three, her adoptive parents moved to Los Angeles to write music for The Carol Burnett Show.
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Gillian Welch performed folk songs with her peers at the Westland Elementary School in Los Angeles.
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Gillian Welch later attended Crossroads School, a high school in Santa Monica, California.
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Gillian Welch met her music partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for Berklee's only country band.
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Similar to Revival, Gillian Welch was praised for reflecting influences such as the Stanley Brothers, but still managing to create an original sound, while Chris Herrington from Minneapolis's City Pages criticized the songs' lack of authenticity.
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Gillian Welch sang two songs and served as the associate producer for the Burnett-produced soundtrack to the 2000 film of the same name.
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When Universal Music Group purchased Almo Sounds, Gillian Welch began her own independent label, Acony Records.
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Gillian Welch has said the album is about American history, rock 'n' roll, and country music.
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Gillian Welch co-wrote five of the songs with Rawlings, and provided guitar and harmony vocals.
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In 2009, Rawlings said that recording for the next Gillian Welch album has started, but did not give a release date.
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Gillian Welch attributed the long time period between releases to dissatisfaction with the songs they were writing.
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Gillian Welch plays rhythm guitar with a 1956 Gibson J-50, while Rawlings plays lead on a 1935 Epiphone Olympic Guitar.
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Gillian Welch has ever walked the streets of "the black dust towns of East Tennessee" about which she sings in "Miner's Refrain" because the sense of foreboding that she expresses for the men who once labored in coal mines with futile hopes of a better life comes through loud and clear.
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Gillian Welch emphasizes music from a previous era as her major influence.
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Gillian Welch later created the cover art for Hitchcock's 2014 album The Man Upstairs.
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In 2011, Gillian Welch was a support act for Buffalo Springfield, who performed and toured that year.