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David Rawlings

Grammys 2025: the boundary-crossing hits and crises

jewly hight

January 31, 2025

Ordinarily, the entire week leading up to the Sunday telecast is packed with parties and showcases. Most of those have been canceled, though, and the few remaining have been slightly reframed.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Beyonce, David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Grammys, Kacey Musgraves, music

Listen: The inspiration for the song ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’ is an East Nashville landmark

Justin Barney

January 3, 2025

An adult and a kid on in golden hour light standing under a large train bridge
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings live and work in Nashville, and their knowledge of the city shines through in the new song, “Empty Trainload of Sky.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: David Rawlings, East Nashville, Gillian Welch, history, Shelby Bottoms

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Singer-songwriters

Mary Mancini

December 9, 2024

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Three decades ago, singer-songwriters Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings came to Nashville and fleshed out a very modern and influential take on an old-time country music sensibility.

Filed Under: Profiles, Programs Tagged With: David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, WNXP

The songs of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have added to the shared folk canon, but their career is their own

jewly hight

December 8, 2024

It’s easy to forget how unorthodox they seemed when they first arrived in Nashville in the early 1990s.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Americana, David Rawlings, East Nashville, Gillian Welch, Nashville Artist of the Month, Super Tuesday Tornado

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