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Gillian Welch
Solo artist New York United States
Gillian Welch is an artist from New York. Gillian Welch has 50 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Look at Miss Ohio”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #91. The station that charted Gillian Welch most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Gillian Welch, born in 1967, sings songs that sound like they've been handed down for a century, and she does it hand in hand with guitarist David Rawlings. Their sound is spare and often dark, stitched together from Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, with plenty of empty space left for the ghosts.
Her debut, Revival, came out in 1996 with "Orphan Girl" and "Acony Bell", and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album; Time (The Revelator), from 2001, with "Everything Is Free" and "Elvis Presley Blues", got the same nod. Soul Journey in 2003 filled things out with drums and electric guitar and a brighter mood, then came an eight-year wait before The Harrow & The Harvest in 2011, a third Grammy nominee, with "The Way It Goes".
She also helped make the soundtrack to the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, as an associate producer and a singer on two songs, and it went on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. The Coens came back for her and Rawlings with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, whose song "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" earned them an Oscar nomination. The Americana Awards named her Artist of the Year in 2012 and gave her a lifetime achievement award for songwriting in 2015, and the duo have since won the Grammy for Best Folk Album twice, for All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) and Woodland.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Gillian Welch on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look at Miss Ohio | 11 | #91 | – | – | |
| 2 | The Way it Goes | 10 | #19 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | Elvis Presley Blues | 7 | #24 | – | – | |
| 4 | Everything Is Free | 2 | #245 | – | – | |
| 5 | Revelator | 3 | #388 | – | – | |
| 6 | Hard Times | 1 | #3 | – | 2011 | |
| 7 | Pass You By | 2 | #553 | – | – | |
| 8 | Caleb Meyer | 1 | #335 | – | – | |
| 9 | Orphan Girl | 2 | #469 | – | – | |
| 10 | Time (The Revelator) | 1 | #485 | – | – | |
| 11 | Down Along The Dixie Line | 1 | #429 | – | – | |
| 12 | Wayside/Back In Time | 1 | #591 | – | – | |
| 13 | I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll | 1 | #532 | – | – | |
| 14 | Honey Now | 1 | #589 | – | – | |
| 15 | Scarlet Town | 1 | #606 | – | – | |
| 16 | Red Clay Halo | 1 | #713 | – | – | |
| 17 | Black Star | 1 | #722 | – | – | |
| 18 | Acony Bell | 1 | #862 | – | – | |
| 19 | My Morphine | 1 | #1967 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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