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CultureJuly 7, 2011

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

More personal and less archetypical than her previous records, Welch’s new album tells stories of American religious realism and spiritual strivings both anonymously mythical and personally individual.

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