🗺️ Althea (Grateful Dead) - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Live - 2026

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings play a cover of the Grateful Dead song "Althea" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California on April 18, 2026. Althea originally appeared on The Grateful Dead's eleventh studio album, Go To Heaven (1980). Gillian Welch is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. David Rawlings is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. This was one of a handful of shows in which they will play Grateful Dead covers in celebration of the Dead’s acoustic live album Reckoning’s 45th anniversary. Joining Welch and Rawlings onstage was Punch Brothers' bassist Paul Kowert.

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Play Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning
- Live Tour Dates

April 3 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
April 4 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
April 6 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
April 7 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
April 9 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre
April 10 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre
April 11 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre
April 17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
April 18 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
April 19 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Quarry Amphitheater
April 23 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
July 25 – Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival

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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Official Bio:

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are pillars of the modern acoustic music world and their rich and remarkable careers span over twenty-five years. They have been hailed by Pitchfork as “modern masters of American folk” and “protectors of the American folk song” by Rolling Stone and the New York Times says “their combined voices operate beyond simple sonic harmony. There are emotional inquiries at play. If Welch’s voice delivers the good news or the hard news of the world, Rawlings’s voice comes underneath, asking how much deeper the sadness can go or what fresh heights the ecstatic can climb to.”

Their most recent 10th studio album, Woodland, won the 2025 Best Folk Album GRAMMY. Woodland was named for and recorded at Welch and Rawlings’ own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN. Of the album and studio, Welch said, “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do and has been for the last twenty some years. 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.” The new 10-song collection mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo’s signature sound and lyricism and cements the pair’s iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music.

After moving to Nashville in the 1990s, Welch was launched into the public consciousness when Emmylou Harris recorded a cover of Welch’s “Orphan Girl.” Her career continued to flourish as her 1996 debut Revival, produced by T Bone Burnett, was released to critical acclaim. Firmly on the roots music map following the release, Welch and Rawlings followed up that Grammy nominated album release with 1998’s Hell Among The Yearlings, a stark duet record that further solidified the duo as a force in the folk music scene.

In 2018, Welch was the first musician to receive the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Literature. The award is bestowed by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Department of English & Comparative Literature and recognizes contemporary writers with a distinguished body of work.

2019 saw Welch and Rawlings nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” where they performed their singing cowboy duet live at the Academy Awards. “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” was written for the Coen brothers’ film The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. In 2020, the duo released All the Good Times, the first album under both their names, and won the GRAMMY for the Best Folk Album. They were crowned with the Berklee American Masters Award and honored by Americana Music Association with a Lifetime Achievement for Songwriting.

Welch and Rawlings continue to tour the world in support of their music while simultaneously writing and lending their talents to countless fellow artists’ projects. They are continuously working to release their acclaimed catalog on vinyl of the highest possible fidelity. The vinyl edition of the new album Woodland is mastered by David Rawlings directly from the original analog master tapes to his own custom lathe. Acony Records is proud to be partnering with the all-new Paramount Pressing & Plating in Denver, Colorado, a joint venture between Rawlings and esteemed plating craftsman Gary Salstrom, to produce superior vinyl records.

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