| Artist: | Gillian Welch |
| Studio: | 6 |
| Music Videos: | 4 |
| Soundtrack: | 4 |
| Tribute: | 5 |
| Option: | 4 |
| Option Name: | Archival releases |
| 1Option: | 29 |
| 1Option Name: | Other appearances |
Gillian Welch (born October 2, 1967) is a singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. Welch plays with her music partner David Rawlings, whom she met while they were both students at The Berklee College of Music. The first two Gillian Welch albums were released through the label Almo Sounds. After Universal Music Group purchased Almo, Welch started her own label, Acony Records.
In her career, Welch has collaborated with several artists, appearing as a musician, songwriter, and vocalist.
The artist in all recordings is listed as "Gillian Welch" except where noted.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||||
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| US [1] | US Folk [2] | US Indie [3] | US Rock [4] | AUS [5] | IRE [6] | NOR [7] | NZ [8] | UK [9] | |||||||
| Revival |
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| Hell Among the Yearlings |
| 181 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Time (The Revelator) |
| 157 | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Soul Journey |
| 107 | — | 3 | — | 69 | — | — | — | 65 | |||||
| The Harrow & the Harvest |
| 20 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 7 | 14 | 25 | |||||
| All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) (with David Rawlings) |
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| Woodland Studios (with David Rawlings) |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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| US [10] | US Folk [11] | US Indie [12] | US Rock [13] | AUS [14] | IRE [15] | NOR [16] | NZ [17] | UK [18] | ||||||
| Music from the Revelator Collection |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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| US [19] | US Folk [20] | US Indie [21] | US Rock [22] | AUS [23] | IRE [24] | NOR [25] | NZ [26] | UK [27] | ||||||
| Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg |
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| Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 |
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| Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 |
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| Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
| Date | Song(s) | Album | Comments | |
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| June 2, 1998 | "Leaving Train" | The Horse Whisperer: Songs From and Inspired by the Motion Picture (soundtrack) | ||
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) |
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| January 23, 2001 | "Wind and Rain" | Songcatcher: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (soundtrack) |
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| "Pocahontas" | Man from Plains (soundtrack) |
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| Date | Song | Album | Comments | |
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| June 2, 1998 | "Miner's Prayer" | Will Sing For Food: The Songs of Dwight Yoakam |
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| July 13, 1999 | "Hickory Wind" |
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| June 12, 2001 | "Beulah Land" | Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt |
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| July 10, 2001 | "In Tall Buildings" | A Tribute to John Hartford: Live From Mountain Stage |
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| September 17, 2002 | "Summer Evening" | Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown |
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| August, 2014 | "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", "Apache Tears (Reprise)", "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (Reprise)" | Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited |
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| August 5, 2022 | "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" | Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson |
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| Date | Song(s) | Album | Artist | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 26, 1994 |
| Gringo Honeymoon | Robert Earl Keen | |
| July 21, 1998 | "Love Still Remains" | Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf | Emmylou Harris | |
| August 18, 1998 | "If I Had a Hammer" | Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) | Nanci Griffith | |
| July 25, 2000 | "Do Re Mi" | Swing Set | Ani DiFranco | |
| September 26, 2000 |
| Sailing to Philadelphia | Mark Knopfler | |
| July 10, 2001 | "Oh Death" | Clinch Mountain Sweethearts | Ralph Stanley | |
| July 12, 2001 | Several | Heartbreaker | Ryan Adams | |
| July 31, 2001 |
| Fan Dance | Sam Phillips | |
| July 30, 2002 | "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" | Songs for Greta | James Alan Shelton | |
| September 25, 2001 | "Barstow" | Sebastopol | Jay Farrar | |
| September 17, 2002 | "Katie Dear" | The Chieftains | ||
| September 17, 2002 |
| The Dark | Guy Clark | |
| September 24, 2002 | "Tomorrow" | Demolition | Ryan Adams | |
| December 3, 2002 | "Hickory Wind" | Georgia Peach | Burrito Deluxe | |
| 2003 | "100 Years From Now" | Revisited | Lloyd Green | |
| February 24, 2004 | Several | O.C.M.S. | Old Crow Medicine Show | |
| October 5, 2004 | Several | Spooked | Robyn Hitchcock | |
| August 29, 2006 | Several | Big Iron World | Old Crow Medicine Show | |
| March 13, 2007 | "The Last Goodbye" | Waterloo, Tennessee | Uncle Earl | |
| April 10, 2007 | "Classic Cars" | Cassadaga | Bright Eyes | |
| September 18, 2007 |
| Emmylou Harris | ||
| July 8, 2008 | "Breadline Blues 2008" | Moneyland | Del McCoury | |
| October 21, 2008 | "Tennessee Rose" | Veracruz | The Deep Vibration | |
| February 17, 2009 | "Lua" | Dark Was the Night | Listed as "Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch" | |
| November 17, 2009 | Several | A Friend of a Friend | Dave Rawlings Machine | |
| July 26, 2010 |
| Praise & Blame | Tom Jones | |
| September 7, 2010 |
| Mean Old Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | |
| January 18, 2011 | Several | The King is Dead | The Decemberists | |
| November 27, 2015 | "Silver Liner" and "Juanita" | Silver Liner | Ethan Johns | |
| January 8, 2021 | "Butterfly" | Greenfields | Barry Gibb | |
| April 1, 2022 | "Side Saddle" | Crooked Tree | Molly Tuttle |
| Date | Song | Album | Comments | |
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| March 13, 2001 | "My Morphine" | Concerts For A Landmine Free World | ||
| April 5, 2005 | "Caleb Mayer" | Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004 |
| Year | Song | Director |
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| 2001 | "I'll Fly Away" (w/ Alison Krauss) | Joel Coen |
| 2002 | "Elvis Presley Blues" | Mark Seliger |
| "My First Lover" | ||
| "Revelator" | ||
| 2015 | "The Weekend" (w/ David Rawlings) | Reid Long |
| 2017 | "Dark Turn of Mind" | Reid Long |
| "Cumberland Gap" (w/ David Rawlings) | James Lees |