
She may be of slight build, propped up by a few inches of road-worn cowboy boot, but Gillian Welch’s voice is as heavy and potent as a crate of moonshine. Her latest release, The Harrow & The Harvest, drives the point home wonderfully. It’s her first release in eight years, and already a classic.
The album starts off with “Scarlet Town,” a solemn romper about a runaway love that sounds as if it could be wafting straight out of a backwoods Tennessee holler. It’s bleak, with lyrics that are at once beautiful and intriguing. “I’ll be looking through a telescope from hell to Scarlet Town.” Its country-picked arrangement is the most intricately arranged on the album, but stays well within the limits of taste.
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