Hell Among the Yearlings is the second album by Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch

Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...

, released in 1998

1998 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...

. All the songs on the album are written by Welch and David Rawlings

David Rawlings

David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....

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"Hell Among the Yearlings" is a fiddle instrumental from the John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection performed by Seth Mize in Arkansas. No recording date is given, but other songs in the collection were recorded in the early 1960s.

Track listing

1. "Caleb Meyer" – 3:05
2. "Good Til Now" – 3:56
3. "The Devil Had a Hold of Me" – 4:30
4. "My Morphine" – 5:53
5. "One Morning" – 2:41
6. "Miner's Refrain" – 3:57
7. "Honey Now" – 1:52
8. "I'm Not Afraid to Die" – 3:27
9. "Rock of Ages" – 3:08
10. "Whiskey Girl" – 4:15
11. "Winter's Come and Gone" – 2:14

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak
1998	Billboard Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	9
1998	The Billboard 200	181
1998	FolkDJ-L Folk Radio Airplay	2