“Acony Bell” by Gillian Welch

"Acony Bell" comes from Revival, the first album by the American singer-songwriter Gillian Welch, released on April 9, 1996, and the credits keep it to two people: Welch and David Rawlings wrote it together, sing it together and play the acoustic guitars, with Rik Pekkonen engineering and mixing. The flower in the song looks to be Shortia galacifolia, the Oconee bells, and Welch later called her own record label Acony.

Paste's Josh Jackson heard Welch, out of Los Angeles, and her partner from Rhode Island arriving as though they had thawed out of Depression-era Appalachian ice, AllMusic's Mark Deming called Revival a superb debut, and the album drew a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

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