“Winter’s Come and Gone” was written by Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings. Welch recorded it for her 1998 album “Hell Among the Yearlings.”
The song marks the passing of a hard season. Through a series of birds — a little red bird, a blue bird, a black bird — the singer measures her own struggle to get through a lean and cold stretch of life, and finds in the turn from winter to spring a cautious note of survival.
Welch’s spare, old-time-rooted songwriting has been widely embraced by bluegrass and Americana musicians.
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