The Harrow & The Harvest is a 2011 album released by American musician Gillian Welch. It is Welch's first album in eight years. Colin Meloy of The Decemberists described it as featuring a southern appalachian sound.The release date is June 28, 2011.The song The Way It Will Be has frequently been performed live in years prior to the release of the album.The Harrow & The Harvest features ten new songs recorded at her own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and produced by David Rawlings. The Harrow & The Harvest, is a new Southern sound, writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, with the sort of songs you wouldn't be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia; Songs you'd expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening. Songs with the wry humour of the back porch. Listen to this record with the lights low. Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.. Welch and Rawlings met at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Together, they moved to Nashville, TN, where most of their work together has been produced. Since then, they have influenced and inspired new generations of country and folk singers, songwriters and players. They have earned the slavish admiration of many of the most lauded and loved voices of the Americana milieu, and had their songs recorded by the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Solomon Burke.