Soul Journey
by Gillian Welch
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 1341 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,270.
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Soul Journey track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 12/21/2025 04:13 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 | |
| 08/16/2025 19:53 | LittleM1971 | 5,909 | 81/100 | |
| 08/12/2025 13:28 | TonySayers61 | 23,870 | 64/100 | |
| 08/09/2025 11:11 | WayneMC | 5,290 | 86/100 | |
| 05/23/2025 12:19 |  sszwalbenest | 1,757 | 76/100 |
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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 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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buzzdainer 10/24/2016 22:25 | #177383
"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.
"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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