Time (The Revelator) (2001)

Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, this landmark album distils centuries of Appalachian ballads, country blues and old-time hymns into ten modern parables. David Rawlings's syncopated, chiming archtop guitar dances around Welch's plainspoken, ancient-sounding vocal delivery, linking the sinking of the Titanic with the loss of rock-and-roll innocence.