Soul Journey

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Soul Journey
Studio album by Gillian Welch
Released	June 3, 2003 (US)
Recorded	?
Genre	Country music Bluegrass music
Length	39.07
Label	Acony
Producer(s)	David Rawlings
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (3.5/5) link Pitchfork (7.1/10) 10/8/03 Stylus (B+) 9/1/03
Gillian Welch chronology
Time (The Revelator) (2001)	Soul Journey (2003)

Soul Journey is the fourth studio album by Gillian Welch. As with all of her previous releases it is very much a collaboration with her partner, David Rawlings.

In their preceding work, Time (The Revelator), Welch and Rawlings had experimented with using only acoustic guitar and banjo as accompaniment. With Soul Journey, they return to the more diverse and modern instrumentation of their early work, employing electric guitar, organ, and drums. As with Welch's other works, a strong American roots influence can be heard. This is perhaps most clear on the track, "No One Knows My Name", which borrows the melody from the Carter Family classic, "Motherless Children" and in Welch's reading of the traditional, "Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor".

[edit] Track listing

1. "Look At Miss Ohio" – 4:16
2. "Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor" – 2:45
3. "Wayside/Back In Time" – 3:28
4. "I Had A Real Good Mother and Father" – 3:14
5. "One Monkey" – 5:36
6. "No One Knows My Name" – 3:16
7. "Lowlands" – 3:19
8. "One Little Song" – 3:12
9. "I Made A Lovers Prayer" – 5:03
10. "Wrecking Ball" – 4:56

[edit] External links

• Review of "Look at Miss Ohio" by David Dye for NPR's Day to Day.
• Gillian Welch Interview for Austin City Limits