The Willie Watson Interview: Real Love, Creative Outlets, and Meeting One of The Beatles

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Willie Watson's debut self-titled album was released this past Friday. Since leaving Old Crow Medicine Show, founding member Willie Watson, has been forging together an album that really reflects himself as an artist. After two solo albums, the self titled third album finally feels like the solo expression he’s been seeking. To Willie, it’s epic poetry, the journey from stereotypical excess to being sober, from the traumas of childhood to the hard learned habits that lead to destruction and/or an awakening. These stories have blended into the storytelling he’s learned from Old Crow and collaborating with David Rawlings and Gillian Welch, now find themselves on a nine song album named after the man whose journey they are about. With an unmistakable voice that lingers long after you’ve heard it, and melodic earworms in songs like “Real Love”.

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Chapitres

1. The Willie Watson Interview: Real Love, Creative Outlets, and Meeting One of The Beatles (00:00:00)

2. Interview Begins (00:00:16)

3. Growing Up in Upstate New York (00:00:39)

4. The Story of Ruby Love (00:02:17)

5. Singing as a Direct Line with God (00:03:44)

6. From Old Crow Medicine Show to Folk Singer to Songwriter and Artist (00:05:37)

7. The Inspiration for "Real Love" (00:08:05)

8. Meeting One of The Beatles (00:09:50)

9. Every Memory (00:11:24)

10. Creative Outlets (00:14:28)

11. Closing of Willie Watson Interview (00:18:36)

12. Next Week's Kim Richey Interview Sample (00:18:56)

13. Closing of the Show (00:22:26)