100 favourite songs: #71: "Revelator" - Gillian Welch

To me, this song sounds like a long, gently undulating river — or how it feels to travel down that river, summer all around and slow birds calling overhead. I don’t know how she does it, but here, as on all her other records, Welch creates a version of americana which is, without the slightest hint of affectedness or striving, warm and timeless and true.