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As album-closing songs go, they don’t get much more epic than “I Dream A Highway,” the 14-and-a-half minute track that ends Gillian Welch’s 2001 album Time (The Revelator.) It’s a track that’s memorable for far more ... -
Gillian Welch, the Los Angeles-raised musician, whose lyrics and voice conjure Appalachian hollows, Dust Bowl highways, and Nashville morphine dens, released her first album, “Revival,” twenty years ago. Several of the songs sounded as ... -
Back in September I accompanied 33 of my college seminarians to Washington, DC to be with Pope Francis. It wasn’t a vacation. It was a pilgrimage.
A vacation is supposed to be comfortable, predictable, controllable, restful, and pleasant. A pilg... -
You might say Dave Rawlings is an opinionated guy. That’s immediately evident the first time you speak to him at any great length. He freely answers whatever questions an inquiring journalist might pose. If he’s really interested in the top...