Listening to Gillian Welch - in particular her new album, The Harrow & The Harvest - there's a palpable yearning that lurks in and around her music. Welch's adherence to classicism in the areas of folk, bluegrass and country has about it the mournful pang of nostalgia for a time she never experienced. While some songs bend closer to '70s singer-songwriter sounds, the majority of the album centers on the rustic sounds of the 1920s through the 1950s. There's a hew toward a time when songs largely were about characters and their heartfelt stories - albums were tapestries of American lives and the hardships and triumphs that were constantly occurring concurrently.

To read Rev. Adam McKinney's full review of the album, click here.

Gillian Welch

with Dave Rawlings
Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m., $25, $20 OFS members
Capitol Theater, 206 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia
360.754.6670