Album · Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator) is an album by Gillian Welch, released in 2001. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Elvis Presley Blues”, on 7 lists with a best position of #24.
Time (The Revelator), Gillian Welch's third album, arrived in 2001 on Acony Records, and it's as spare and haunted as a front porch at midnight. Welch wrote the songs with David Rawlings, who also produced, and the pair cut it at RCA Studio B, her voice and his guitar wound tight around each other. The lone outlier, "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll", was caught live at the Ryman Auditorium for the concert film Down from the Mountain.
This is alternative country with the dust left on: slow, patient, dark around the edges. The title track "Revelator", "Everything Is Free" and "Elvis Presley Blues" are the songs listeners have held on to, and the album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album, just as her debut Revival had.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Time (The Revelator) on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elvis Presley Blues | 7 | #24 | – | 2009–2024 | |
| 2 | Everything Is Free | 2 | #245 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Revelator | 3 | #388 | – | 2009–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.