Dave rawlings and gillian welch

2024 studio album by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Woodland is the seventh studio album by Gillian Welch, the third solo studio album by David Rawlings (his fifth including his studio work with Dave Rawlings Machine), and the second studio album to be credited to the pair as a duo.

Released by Acony Records on August 23, 2024, it is the first album of original material from Welch since 2011's The Harrow & the Harvest, and from Rawlings since 2017's Poor David's Almanack; their 2020 album All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) consisted entirely of covers of preexisting songs.^[2]

The album is named after Welch and Rawlings' Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, which was destroyed by a tornado in 2020.

The artists stated in a press release that the songs on Woodland are "a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, [and] permanence."^[3]

The first single from the album, "Empty Tra