Critically-acclaimed Americana songbirds Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings have announced details of their 10th studio album, Woodland – their first full-length since 2020’s Grammy-winning all-covers collection, All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) – to be issued on August 23 via their own Acony Records.

Named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, the imminent 10-song set features both full-band sessions and intimate duet performances, all tied together by the duo’s signature old-time sound and evocative lyricism, with opening cut and lead single ‘Empty Trainload of Sky’ providing a languid taster of the starkly vivid emotionality to come.

Speaking on album and studio, the pair say: “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last 20 some years. The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.”

Woodland will be released via Acony Records on August 23