As introductions go, its hard to top Gillian Welchs arrival on the music scene in the mid-90s. Even before her T-Bone-Burnett-produced 1996 debut, Revival, scored a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album, her song Orphan Girl was one of the undeniable highlights of Emmylou Harriss tremendous Wrecking Ball which, incidentally, won the Contemporary Folk Grammy for 1995. Welchs own version of Orphan Girl opened Revival, but the rest of the album proved she had a lot more going for her than one great tune and an almost unsettling gift for evoking the bygone era of the Carter Family. Her 1998 sophomore set, Hell Among the Yearlings, along with her contributions to Burnetts Grammy-winning soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, further underscored her affinity for old-timey bluegrass and folk, but 2001s more rock-inflected Time (The Revelator), 2003s free-wheelin Soul Journey and her 2006 Black Star EP comprised of three stunning Radiohead, Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt covers revealed that Welch and her longtime musical co-pilot David Rawlings are just as compelling mining the here and now as they are the sounds of the past.