“Woodland,” from the duo’s own Acony Records, was released August 23. The album is named for their Woodland Studios in East Nashville, which was heavily damaged in a tornado in 2020.

“Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years,” they said. “The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after the 2020 tornado and making this record. The music is (songs are) a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, permanence. Now.”

Welch and Rawlings begin a national tour September 4. Right now, the closest scheduled performance is at The State Theater of Ithaca on November 26.

Look for the review in Monday’s Buffalo Hive.