Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Airdate February 17, 2026
ABC National Radio Australia

Conversations
with Sarah Kanowski
53 min
FM


https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/gillian-welch-david-rawlings-folk-music-nashville/106336432

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Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, an indestructible Nashville studio and the DNA of folk music


Gillian Welch and David Rawlings met at an audition for the only country music band at a prestigious jazz school in Boston.

They discovered they had something special when they sang together, a sort of eerie emotional resonance that is usually confined to the blood harmonies produced when siblings sing together.

Ever since they've been making music together which draws on the bluegrass, country and folk traditions they love.

In their historic recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee (which has withstood three tornadoes in the last century), they craft haunting songs about the ugly and beautiful parts of humanity.

For Gill and Dave, the DNA of folk music is something we can all contribute to, and which contributes to all of us.