Interviewed by Peter Zimmerman
Vandyland
Nashville, TN
Circa July or August, 1994
46 minutes
01 Intro
02 Early History, Berklee School of Music
03 Nashville Impressions
04 Gender, and Musical Genres
05 Singing and playing with David Rawlings
06 Playing in Nashville, Open-Mic Nights
07 Interest from Publishers, Staff Writing
08 Signing a Publishing Deal
09 Writing Songs
10 Making it in Nashville, Working a Straight Job
11 On Having an Accent
12 Subject Matter and Themes
13 Cars
14 Where to Live Near Nashville
15 Being Recorded by Other Artists
This is a wonderful audio interview with Gillian from probably either July or August of 1994. Recorded in a restaurant in Nashville called Vandyland, it is one of the earliest interviews with Gillian that I have run across. Two years before Revival was released in 1996.
The interview was conducted by Peter Zimmerman for inclusion in his book, Tennessee Music: Its People and Places. Please consider buying a copy of this interesting book in thanks of this amazing gift.
Mr. Zimmerman also wrote another book called, Podunk: Ramblin' to America's Small Places In a Dilapidated Delta 88.
He has been kind enough to share the original masters of the audio with me. As this was recorded at a breakfast restaurant, the audio was extremely hard to make out in some spots, due to room noise. I have done some slight remastering of the audio to bring down the room tone and background noise, and bring Gillian's voice forward in the mix. I believe this is a significant improvement. It is still a little hard to hear Mr. Zimmerman's questions sometimes, but if you listen carefully, you can hear everything, and catch a very young Gillian Welch discussing her early career. Enjoy!
MP3 V0
FLAC
I am providing a FLAC copy of this, along with the MP3. I do not believe that the FLAC will sound any better on most systems. I provide it here for archival purposes only.
