Gillian Welch

In college, a roommate played an album by the bluegrass band The Stanley Brothers, and I had an epiphany:

The first song came on and I just stood up and I kind of walked into the other room as if I was in a tractor beam and stood there in front of the stereo. It was just as powerful as the electric stuff, and it was songs I'd grown up singing. All of a sudden I'd found my music.

-Gillian Welch