Time's a Revelation

In contrast to Allison Kraus's big time pop sensibilities, I always thought that Gillian Welch was the grad student, who tried not only to capture the tone of small town country music recording, but who wanted to write lyrics from within the consciousness of rural folk who had not yet caught up with modernity in the 1960s. So when I drive to the country to bring my daughter to a party in a new house with old furniture to meet a mother who speaks slowly to the sudden crowd of parents in her living room, I know that Gillian Welch is right to sing her cautious songs about that new fangled music. There are folks in long country roads who still hold onto their parents' way of talking. They may not sing that way much, except in church, but Gillian Welch moves us to listen like the young girl that the country grandmother of the country mother once was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db_7Lr5Rb3Y