Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have won Best Folk Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards for their LP Woodland. Welch and Rawlings beat out Adrianne Lenker’s solo album Bright Future, Aoife O’Donovan’s All My Friends, the self-titled LP from American Patchwork Quartet, and Madi Diaz’s Weird Faith for the trophy.
Woodland is Gillian Welch’s first album of original material since 2011’s The Harrow & the Harvest, and Rawlings’ first since 2017’s Poor David’s Almanack. Despite being billed as solo albums, both artists contributed on each other’s records.
Welch and Rawlings recorded Woodland their own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville. “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last 20 some years,” the artists said upon announcing the album. “The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record.”
Welch and Rawlings’ Woodland single “Empty Trainload of Sky” is also nominated for Best Americana Performance at tonight’s Grammy Awards, where it will compete against Beyoncé’s “Ya Ya,” Madi Diaz and Kacey Musgraves’ “Don’t Do Me Good,” Madison Cunningham’s “Subtitles,” Sarah Jarosz’s “Runaway Train,” and Sierra Ferrell’s “American Dreaming.”
Welch and Rawlings won the Best Folk Album Grammy in 2021 for their covers record All of the Good Times.
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