I actually won a six-pack off of the whole controversy Looking back it's kind've amusing. It was weeks later when he called me up and told me that he had heard Gillian Welch interviewed on some show and that indeed, I was right, and that I wasn't just being really pathetic about saying my ex's name. I told him that I had heard Gillian Welch herself pronounce her name the way I was saying it but the guy wouldn't buy it. His reasoning was that I was intentionaly mispronouncing the singer's name because I couldn't bear to say my ex's name and he felt that was just pathetic. At some point a buddy of mine who really like Gillian Welch took me aside and told me that it was kind've lame that I had to pronouce the singer's name diferently from my ex-girlfriend's name. My ex's name was pronounced like the actress from the X-Files. I got into Gillian Welch about the same time, actually from hearing her on American Routes, and when I'd tell people about this cool new singer/songwriter I'd heard, I'd always pronounce it like I heard Gillian Welch say her name on the show. She dumped me years back and it really tore me up for a while. #She said, "Hi, this is Gillian Welch and you're listening to American Routes." #She pronounced her name with the "G" sounding like it would in "good" or "girl". I heard her do a promo spot for American Routes on NPR.
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