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Americana icon Gillian Welch: ‘Bob Dylan walking on to our version of Billy put a smile on my face’


Back with a new album, the singer-songwriter answers your questions on the Coen brothers, John Paul Jones, and having David Cameron as a fan

bandofhorses We don’t release covers often but live we’ll always pull out the odd Neil Young, Grateful Dead or Bob Dylan song. Photograph: Wade Payne/Invision/AP Betting you and Dave would never call yourselves fashionistas, but you have a very deliberate sense of show clothes (Gunne Sax dresses, Nudie suits) that visually complement your songs. Your [2001] song Everything is Free, written during the Napster file-sharing era, has become a modern-day standard, covered by the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Courtney Barnett and Father John Misty.

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