Toby Manning, The Word, August 2003
The fastest-rising folk singer of her generation is an urban college girl writing spare, soulful country tunes set in a bygone America. Her natural mother was a teenager and her father a travelling musician. Part of Gillian Welch now wants to meet them.
Total word count of piece: 3210
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