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On the cusp of a new album with long-term collaborator and partner David Rawlings, the Americana icon will answer your pressing enquiries
Between them, they have since made a number of landmark Americana records – all self-produced and released on their own independent label, Acony – with Welch’s 2001 album Time (The Revelator) standing as an all-time classic in the genre. Rolling Stone magazine has called the pair “protectors of the American folk song”; in 2000, Welch jointly won the Grammy for album of the year for her work as associate producer, performer and songwriter on the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? You can ask Welch about the work of this garlanded pair of songwriters, their recent archival releases, collaborating with the likes of Nanci Griffith, Ani DiFranco, Bright Eyes, Tom Jones and Barry Gibb, or indeed anything else when she sits for the Guardian’s reader interview next week.
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