Time (The Revelator) (2001)

Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Gillian Welch's album distils Appalachian ballads, country blues and old hymns into ten new songs that sound as if they have always existed. David Rawlings's chiming small-bodied guitar dances around her plain, steady voice, and Ruination Day links the Titanic and Lincoln's assassination while the title track muses on rock and roll's lost innocence.