All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) is a 2020 album by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, released on Acony Records on 10 July 2020. It is the first album credited to both of them, and all ten songs are covers or traditional pieces, which they arranged themselves. Rawlings produced it, and he and Matt Andrews recorded and mastered it. The Guardian’s review describes it as recorded to reel-to-reel tape and first issued on a short run of CDs after their Nashville studio was destroyed by a tornado at the start of the lockdown.
The songs range across Elizabeth Cotten’s “Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie,” two by Bob Dylan (“Señor” and “Abandoned Love”), John Prine’s “Hello in There,” Norman Blake’s “Ginseng Sullivan,” “Jackson” and Arlie Duff’s “Y’all Come,” along with the traditional “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss,” “Poor Ellen Smith” and the title song. At the 2021 Grammy Awards it won Best Folk Album.
Tracklist
- 1 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 4:25
- 2 Señor 5:27
- 3 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss alt version 2:37
- 4 Hello In There 5:46
- 5 Poor Ellen Smith alt version 2:16
- 6 All The Good Times are Past and Gone alt version 3:54
- 7 Ginseng Sullivan alt version 3:43
- 8 Abandoned Love 3:45
- 9 Jackson alt version 3:42
- 10 Y’all Come alt version 2:25
