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Gillian Welch: The Girl With No Name

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.

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