Airplane's

Case in point: In one of the encores, she did a powerful version of the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," with Gillian voicing with a stunning intensity at the end, "Feed your head!"

Art Levine: Songs for the New Depression: Americana Icon Gillian Welch Storms Charts, Brings Stark Songs to DC Art Levine 2011

But then she turns around and interprets Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and other well-known songs if not quite "standards" in the traditional sense with so much imagination and musicality that she almost sabotages her own message.

Belated Valentine's Songs Will Friedwald 2012

Although Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and The Temptations' "Just My Imagination" aren't considered national treasures in the vein of "Shenandoah" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee," Marie's just-released Voice of My Beautiful Country reimagines them all as equal, tonally and socially.

Kristi York Wooten: Controversial Singer Asks, "Show Me Your Beautiful Country" Kristi York Wooten 2011

Case in point: In one of the encores, she did a powerful version of the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," with Gillian voicing with a stunning intensity at the end, "Feed your head!"

Art Levine: Songs for the New Depression: Americana Icon Gillian Welch Storms Charts, Brings Stark Songs to DC Art Levine 2011

In early 1967, Grace Slick's ambulance-siren voice on Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" ignited a psychedelic-rock revolution that put San Francisco on the map.

She Went Chasing Rabbits Marc Myers 2011

Although Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and The Temptations' "Just My Imagination" aren't considered national treasures in the vein of "Shenandoah" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee," Marie's just-released Voice of My Beautiful Country reimagines them all as equal, tonally and socially.

Kristi York Wooten: Controversial Singer Asks, "Show Me Your Beautiful Country" Kristi York Wooten 2011

Although Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and The Temptations' "Just My Imagination" aren't considered national treasures in the vein of "Shenandoah" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee," Marie's just-released Voice of My Beautiful Country reimagines them all as equal, tonally and socially.

Kristi York Wooten: Controversial Singer Asks, "Show Me Your Beautiful Country" Kristi York Wooten 2011

Although Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and The Temptations' "Just My Imagination" aren't considered national treasures in the vein of "Shenandoah" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee," Marie's just-released Voice of My Beautiful Country reimagines them all as equal, tonally and socially.

Kristi York Wooten: Controversial Singer Asks, "Show Me Your Beautiful Country" Kristi York Wooten 2011

Case in point: In one of the encores, she did a powerful version of the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," with Gillian voicing with a stunning intensity at the end, "Feed your head!"

Art Levine: Songs for the New Depression: Americana Icon Gillian Welch Storms Charts, Brings Stark Songs to DC Art Levine 2011

A music video of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit', starring the cast of classic Trek.

February 2008 2008