...be unconfined!

Also available from those very nice people at NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011/06/26/137346722/first-listen-gillian-welch-the-h...

I ordered my copy this very morning. Can't get enough from her.

broadcast in melb last weekend.

claimed she was no longer willing to try out new songs in performance before she recorded them as someone would have their phone out and they would be on the web the next day which she found unsettling as she may not want to stay with that version.

Course bootlegging has a long tradition but she contended that the immediacy and omnipresence (my terms) of iphone and youtube were now quote "interfering with the creative process" unquote

It's been a very long wait.

Thank you, Ola and lwellbro.

mine arrived on Monday. I ordered it from her website. It's a return to the first 3 albums and is magnificent.

Let us rejoice.
The reviews have been uniformly 5-star.
can't wait.
Never really took to her last album(Soul Journey) all those years ago.

First time I came across her and david rawlings was on a Jools special from Nashville. They did as far as I remember2 songs on the stage of the Grand Old Oprey - The hairs stood on the back of my neck. Rarely does music hit me like that, and her 1st 3 albums affirmed 1st impressions.
Saw them one night in the Rugby club in as far as i remember, Nenagh Co. Tipperary, while the Rugby boys trained outside. A memorable night.
I got the David Rawlings Machine album and while very good not in the same league.
Mind you I have on occasion put Method Acting/Cortez on continuous play, I think it's a classic track.

Can't wait for the real thing.

Played it yesterday!

Mine arrived this morning, but will have to wait until tonight to hear it. Good reports all round, reviews and word of mouth so can't wait.

Where were you?

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/decemberists-collaborator-preparin...

...through the letterbox this morning, and I'm working from home today (how lucky is that!). First listen would suggest that it's up there with "Time, The Revelator".

and it sounds fabulous. On first hearing WAY better than Soul Journey, which is the only one of her records that I don't love unreservedly.

One of the greats, she really is...

I think I may be listening to a masterpiece.