Soul Journey (studio album)
by Gillian Welch

Soul Journey by Gillian Welch
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 6,827th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 44 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (136th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,198th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,827th)

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Gillian Welch bestography

Soul Journey is ranked 4th best out of 9 albums by Gillian Welch on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Gillian Welch is Time (The Revelator) which is ranked number 1338 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,283.

Gillian Welch album bestography « Higher ranked (3,639th)
Revival
This album (6,827th)
Soul Journey
Lower ranked (12,196th) »
Hell Among The Yearlings

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76/100 (from 44 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.

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85/100
From 10/24/2016 22:25
"I want to do right, but not right now," proclaims the narrator of "Look at Miss Ohio," the brilliant opening track to this fine album, alluding to the playful rebelliousness that defines a number of the tracks here. The approach Gillian Welch and musical partner David Rawlings bring to the material on Soul Journey feels crafted for private enjoyment rather than public consumption, and the end result is not only Welch's most personal work to date but one of her most emotionally satisfying as well.
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From 07/16/2012 18:05
"Time (The Revelator)" is usually considered Gillian's best album, and objectively speaking I can't argue that it's at least as good as this one, but I like Soul Journey a tiny bit better. This albums has several of my all time favorite songs, the ones I constantly catch myself singing in the shower or while walking.
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