Released by Acony Records on August 23, 2024, it is the first album of original material from Welch since 2011's The Harrow & the Harvest, and from Rawlings since 2017's Poor David's Almanack; their 2020 album All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone) consisted entirely of covers of preexisting songs.

[2] The album is named after Welch and Rawlings' Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, which was destroyed by a tornado in 2020.

The artists stated in a press release that the songs on Woodland are "a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, [and] permanence.

"[3] The first single from the album, "Empty Trainload of Sky", was released on July 19, 2024.

[5] Numerous critics and publications listed Woodland in their year-end ranking of the best albums of 2024, often inside the top ten.