Willie Watson

Official videos

Willie Watson - "Already Gone" Afterparty
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On the farm with Sami and Ben #shorts #newmusic #alreadygone
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You’re cordially invited! #shorts #ontour #livemusic
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Already Gone with Dylan Day. #shorts #folksongs
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It’s a Sad Song! #shorts #sadsong #acousticguitar
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That sad old song that you felt like you’d already known forever…you know the one. #shorts
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Willie Watson - "One To Fall"
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Willie Watson - "Play It One More Time"
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Willie Watson - "Sad Song"
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Long John Dean
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About this artist

Folksinger, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, harmonica), and sometimes songwriter Willie Watson heard a Lead Belly record when he was 12 years old and his musical course was set. Growing up in Watkins Glen, New York, Watson listened to his father’s record collection, which included plenty of artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, as well as Lead Belly, and later he discovered Harry Smith’s famous folk anthology, all of which informed the style and substance of the traditional and old-time music Watson would make his own. He was one of the founding members of the Old Crow Medicine Show, a quintet that specialized in a traditional American string band sound and had left-field platinum success with a revamped Bob Dylan song, “Wagon Wheel,” in the late ’90s, recording and touring with the group for some 17 years before leaving to go solo in 2011. He released his debut solo album, Folk Singer, Vol. 1, produced by David Rawlings, early in 2014 on Rawlings and Gillian Welch’s Acony Records imprint. ~ Steve Leggett