With Burnett producing, they cut 's starkly beautiful Revival , an album split between bare-bones duo performances -- some even recorded in mono to capture a bygone sound -- and more full-bodied cuts featuring legendary sessionmen like guitarist James Burton , upright bassist Roy Huskey, Jr. Her sophomore album, Hell Among the Yearlings , followed in Following the success of O Brother , Welch and Rawlings found themselves in the center of a traditional American folk revival and released their third album, Time The Revelator , in mid Steady touring, guest appearances, and the release of a DVD The Revelator Collection kept the pair busy, but in they found time to record Soul Journey , their second release on their own Acony Records label.
Rawlings cut his first solo album, A Friend of Mine , though Welch sang harmony all over it. It was issued in She and Rawlings co-produced, sang, and played everything on the album, which was engineered by Matt Andrews. Welch and Rawlings both participated in the recording of 's Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited , a multi-artist album that paid tribute to Cash 's landmark concept album on Native American history.
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Soon after, some of her songs were recorded by the Nashville Bluegrass Band and the brother-sister bluegrass duo Tim and Mollie O'Brien. I felt like he wanted to make the same first record that I wanted to make. Singing in her spare, mournful way, Welch tells stark, powerful stories about such things as the death of a child "Annabelle" and a bootlegger's dying request for his still to be destroyed "Tear My Stillhouse Down". In a review of Revival on the Salon website, Lori Leibovich wrote that "Welch mesmerizes with her emotional range; she can sing with the vulnerability of a child, the sass of an adolescent, the dignity of an old woman or the flat-out sex appeal of a nightclub chanteuse It is a gift to all of us who need music to be more than just background noise.
With assistance from Burnett, Welch achieved an old-fashioned, pared-down sound that, according to Michael McCall of the All Music Guide website, "could be lifted from some long lost Depression Era folk recording. Not typical fare for mainstream radio stations, Revival nonetheless built a strong following based primarily on the strength of Welch's live shows and rave reviews in the press. While Welch has expressed ambivalence about the "folk" label, she was quoted by Country.
Two years later, again collaborating with Rawlings on the songwriting and performance end and with Burnett on the production end, Welch released Hell among the Yearlings. The title comes from an old fiddle tune that, like many such tunes, has multiple titles.
The other titles for that tune--including "Trouble amongst the Bovine" and "Ox in the Mud"--made "Hell among the Yearlings" the obvious choice for the album's title.
While Revival is not exactly cheerful, Hell among the Yearlings goes even further into the somber, rustic traditions of the traditional music Welch admires. Beginning with "Caleb Meyer," a song about a woman killing her attacker with a broken bottle, and including "One Morning," about a woman who sees her son riding home from battle only to realize it is a lifeless body strapped to the horse, Hell among the Yearlings embraces the bleak aspects of life.
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