Gillian Welch announced plans this morning to add dates to her The Harrow & The Harvest In Concert Vinyl Release Tour. The additional shows will take place in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland. The tour features Welch and her musical partner, Dave Rawlings, as they perform Welch’s 2011 Grammy nominated album, The Harrow & The Harvest. The Washington Post describes the album as “Welch…at her haunting, heart-aching best.” Fans, new and old, are in for a treat. Tickets for the new dates will go on sale July 14th at 10:00 a.m., although tickets for the preexisting concerts in New York City, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and Nashville, are already available.
Welch plans to release the 2011 album on vinyl for the first time ever via her own company, Acony Records.
“We have been working and waiting 20 years to bring you our music on phonograph record. It took a while, because we wanted to do it the right way, the absolute best way humanly possible, and I believe that’s what we’ve done. No sonic stone was left unturned, no nuance let fall by the wayside. There is honestly nothing else I can imagine hoping to hear out of the original tapes. It is all there in the groove. As people whose lives were changed by the sound of music coming off turntables, we humbly invite you to include us in your record collection.”
Welch’s excitement about re-releasing her album “the right way” is palpable. Welch mastered the album directly from its original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers, to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system. The LP is plated and pressed on a standard-weight audiophile-quality vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. The vinyl re-release is no gimmick, it is something Welch has had her eyes on for years. It can be pre-ordered here.
Welch and Rawlings have recorded eight studio albums together and have been involved in seemingly countless other individual musical projects. The Harrow & The Harvest, which will be featured on the tour, garnered Grammy nominations for Best Engineered Album and Best Folk Album, and received the gold standard of praise from outlets such as Uncut Magazine, NPR Music, and The AV Club.
THE HARROW & THE HARVEST TRACK LIST:
1. Scarlet Town
2. Dark Turn of Mind
3. The Way It Will Be
4. The Way It Goes
5. Tennessee
6. Down Along the Dixie Line
7. Six White Horses
8. Hard Times
9. Silver Dagger
10. The Way the Whole Thing Ends
“The Harrow & The Harvest” Tour Dates
July 30 – Charlottesville VA – Sprint Pavilion
July 31 – Washington DC – Kennedy Center
August 2 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
August 4 – Charlotte, NC – Knight Theater
August 5 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall
August 7 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
October 3 – San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre
October 4 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre
October 6 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
October 9 & 10 – Portland, OR – Newmark Theatre
October 11 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
Dave Rawlings Machine Tour Dates
August 16 – Louisville, KY – WL Lyons Brown Theatre
August 17 – St. Louis, MO – Sheldon Concert Hall
August 18 – Kansas City, MO – Folly Theater
August 20 – Lyons, CO – Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
August 23 – Minneapolis, MN – Pantages Theatre
August 24 – Madison, WI – The Capitol Theater
August 25 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
August 26 – Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird
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