Description
Label Review.
To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gillian Welch's landmark debut album, Revival, Acony Records proudly presents Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg. This generous companion to the Grammy-nominated release features 21 outtakes, alternate versions, and demos from the making of Revival, including 8 previously unheard songs.
Our Overview.
Americana icon tapped into her vault of analog tape recordings for the sequel to her classic 'Revival' album.
When Gillian Welch released Revival in April of 1996, the LP was hailed as an alt-country classic, an influential Americana album at a time when that movement was in its mere infancy. Twenty years later, the collection is getting a significant re-release.
Boots No 1: The Official Revival Bootleg will be available November 25th on Welch's Acony Records label. Personally curated and produced by Gillian Welch and partner/producer David Rawlings, the two-disc set will feature eight previously unreleased songs and includes 21 outtakes, alternate versions and demos recorded during the making of the album.
"I'm happy that the songs hold up," says Welch. "That’s probably the thing I'm most proud of. There is that interesting moment in any writer's first batch of songs or any writer's first novel or anything, a filmmaker's first movie that always seems to have something that is different from what comes after. Something happens in that first push. Maybe because you're usually up against more resistance. But there is a purity, or a diamond hardness, to the first batch that doesn't seem to happen again. Revival has that when I look at it. Maybe it's lack of ego. You know, there really was no me. The artist Gillian Welch didn't really exist. And then after that, I did."