a switch back to guitar and a change of setlist. “We were gonna play a happy number,” Welch informed the crowd, “but instead we’re gonna play a real sad one.” Which, at a Welch/Rawlings ...

Ever since meeting at Boston’s Berklee School of Music in the early 1990s, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have worked ...

Gillian Welch performs with David Rawlings at the Wiltern, March 2025 She brings a sense of hope to even some of the sadder tales, anyway — like “Hard Times,” which is not the Stephen Foster ...

You'd just about have to think so, if you are privy to a couple of significant tours coming through California right now, one by the duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, another by solo artist ...