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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: “Until a song is right, we basically exist in a state of misery”

In the second week of May, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings drove from Los Angeles to Nashvillle. The journey took 31 hours, and Welch filmed a small portion of it on her iPhone. The clip is framed by an open car window, and outside you can see the flooded Mississippi stretching away from the edge of the road to the horizon: a new inland sea for the beleaguered American South.

Gillian Welch/David Rawlings interview: Nashville, May 2011. Part Two

This is the second part of a lengthy piece I wrote for Uncut earlier this summer. The first part is here.
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