After the destruction of their Woodland Studios in the Nashville tornado of 2020, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings salvaged what they could of their past and soon began rebuilding. The result is this first recording of original music for many years. In a recent interview with Mojo magazine, Welch said of the album, ‘There is a renewal, but with stories and scars. I feel like a new shoot, tender…’ Woodland has that same fragility, reckoning with the darkness and light of midlife, finding hope in new growth.