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June 19-25, 2003 musicpicks Gillian Welch
When you've got an act as honed as Gillian Welch's, even the smallest changes can seem like earthquakes. Soul Journey (Acony) might not qualify as a watershed for anyone else, but the fleshed-out album is like a ray of sunshine busting into the root cellar of her soul. The Appalachian shuffle created by Welch and co-everything David Rawlings remains at the center, but faint touches of dobro, fiddle, even a smattering of organ add a hint of color to Welch's sepia-toned narratives. After the grand, even grandiose narratives of Time (The Revelator), Soul Journey has been tagged by some as an anticlimax, but you can hear Welch letting her voice carry deeper, if not further, into the life of the wayward beauty queen in "Look at Miss Ohio," or the self-destructive loner of "Wrecking Ball." Welch isn't one to take great strides, but she sees more along the way. Fri., June 20, 8 p.m., $25-$48.50, with Norah Jones, The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52nd and Parkside sts., 215-893-1999. 
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