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American vocalist-songwriter

Willie Watson
Playing five-string banjo Ossipee Valley Music Festival in Hiram, Maine July 25, 2014.

Playing five-string banjo
Ossipee Valley Music Festival in Hiram, Maine
July 25, 2014.
Background data
Birth name William Currie Watson
Born (1979-09-23) September 23, 1979 (age 42)
Watkins Glen, New York
Genres Bluegrass, folk
Occupation(due south) musician
Instruments Guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals
Years active 1996–present
Labels Acony Records
Website http://www.williewatson.com/

Musical creative person

William Currie Watson (born September 23, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo actor, actor and founding member of Old Crow Medicine Prove. His debut solo album Folk Singer, Vol. I, was released in May 2014;[1] its follow-upwards Folksinger, Vol. ii was released September xv, 2017 on Acony Records. He has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival[ii] and other major music festivals. He currently resides in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles.[3]

Watson appears as The Kid in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2018 film The Carol of Buster Scruggs, too performing on the soundtrack.

Biography [edit]

Early [edit]

William Currie Watson[four] was born in Watkins Glen, New York (Schuyler County), and raised in that location, in Upstate New York, effectually Ithaca.[5] Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Watson listened to music on the radio – from Michael Jackson to Nirvana – but also his father'due south record albums, including The Rolling Stones and Neil Young. He recalls:[6]

I was merely exposed to all kinds of stuff and . . . information technology could accept been anything, and I would still be playing music because I could sing like everyone or anything I wanted to. I guess I still tin . . . That's why I experience so fortunate – a lot of people don't have that, and I never take it for granted. I institute a direction in life at a very young age.

He outset met Ben Gould in high school and they began playing music together. Around Ithaca and next-door Tompkins Canton "a lot of old-time fiddle music" was being played, some of it by banjo player Richie Stearns and the group Donna The Buffalo. Watson was exposed to former-time music immediate at a weekly sometime-time jam.[7]

Both Watson and Gould dropped out of school and formed the band The Funnest Game, which like Richie Stearns' group The Equus caballus Flies had "clawhammer banjo, electric guitar, drums."[seven] Their make of electric/onetime-time was heavily influenced by the old-time scene prominent in Tompkins and Schuyler County, New York, including The Horse Flies and The Highwoods Stringband.[vii] Performing locally, the young band earned the respect of local musicians and gained a following, appearing weekly at the Rongovian Embassy with Richie Stearns and annually at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York.

Futurity bandmate Ketch Secor described it equally a "young folksy kind of jam element acoustic ring that was really pop in the southern tier region of New York Country." Watson, he says, "was playing shows statewide by the fourth dimension he was xvi" with "this group that had some congas and some clawhammer banjo."[8] : 7

Sometime Crow Medicine Show [edit]

Playing guitar with Onetime Crow Medicine Prove at Gilded Plains music festival in Australia March 8, 2009.

Watson met hereafter co-founder of Old Crow Medicine Show Ketch Secor after the latter finished high schoolhouse in New Hampshire, his band broke upwardly in Virginia, and he enrolled in Ithaca Higher.[8] : 5 [9] Secor brought friend and former bandmate Chris "Critter" Fuqua up to New York Country from Virginia. Watson dissolved The Funnest Game while the three assembled musicians around Ithaca, New York "where there is a very lively old-time music scene." According to Mac Benford, Ithaca had for 40 years "been a center of old time music, nationally,"[10] including Kevin Hayes[8] : 5 They recorded Trans:mission, a cassette of ten songs they could sell on the road.

Ithaca and that surrounding expanse was a big influence on us. We wouldn't be hither without a lot of the people we met in that location, like Richie Stearns, the Red Hots and Mac Benford. All those former-time banjo players brought the music from the S back up to New York, and it was kind of a hotbed.[11]

– Critter Fuqua

The group left Ithaca for their Trans:mission tour in Oct 1998, busking west across Canada. They circled back east in Leap of 1999 and moved into a farmhouse on Beech Mountain, almost Boone, North Carolina. They were embraced by the Appalachian community, and their repertoire of old-time songs grew equally they played with local musicians."[ix]

After being discovered busking in Boone, Due north Carolina past Doc Watson—while "playing on Doc'south old corner" where he'd "started playing in the 1950s" on King Street[12] —the famed folk-land legend said, "Boys, that was some of the most authentic old-time music I've heard in a long while. You nigh got me crying."[9] Doc invited the band to participate in his almanac MerleFest music festival, founded in 1988 in memory of Doctor's son Eddy Merle Watson, who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Customs College and to celebrate "traditional plus" music.[13] [14] There they met Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings who introduced them to the Nashville music scene, where they promptly relocated.

Watson performed with the group, writing and singing many of their more notable songs. He left to commence on a solo career in the autumn of 2011, a couple months before Fuqua rejoined the group,[15] citing time on the road, new parenthood, and direction the ring was headed equally reasons for the dissever.

Solo career [edit]

Watson's transition to solo appearances began slowly with an invitation from siblings Sean and Sara Watkins to join them on a Cayamo cruise—a "singer-songwriter, folk, rootsy festival on a ship effectually the Commonwealth of the bahamas." Sean "took the liberty" of putting Watson on the performance schedule. He after would "go pretty oftentimes and ... sing a few songs" at "this little revue called the Watkins Family Hour at Largo" where the Watkins would encourage him to try appearing solo.[sixteen]

In 2012–2013 Watson began appearing in venues in and around Venice Embankment, California, making appearances with the John C. Reilly ring and John Prine,[17] [18] and opening for acts such as Punch Brothers, Sarah Jarosz, and Dawes.[19] Initially he was performing original music, and so realized he got more than out of performing the old songs—and his audience seemed to enjoy them more. Every bit he explains:

Once I was on my own, I wasn't certain what my next move was–if I was going to have another ring, or try to write a bunch of songs. At first, I did first writing songs, but I don't think I was satisfied with what I was writing. I was starting to practice some solo shows, and I had a few songs I'd written, and I would do a mix of those with old traditional songs, at those early on shows. I was a lot happier doing those old folk songs, and I think the crowd was a lot happier, too. I idea those were neat songs that people should exist hearing, and that I wanted to be singing.[7]

In 2014, he performed at SXSW in Austin, Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California, Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, Pickathon Music Festival in Oregon, Fayetteville Roots Festival in Arkansas, and Steelfest in Missouri. A bout of the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and Republic of ireland takes him to Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, London, and Dublin.

He appears at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville during September.[20] Of his transition to a solo career, Watson says:

I don't have whatsoever regrets, merely I'm really happy that I'yard where I'm at now. I'thou playing the music I want to play, and it'south real elementary, and I don't have a big light show–I'k in a good place with that.[7]

In 2018, Willie fabricated his picture debut as "The Kid" in the Coen brothers motion picture The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and performed "When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" on the picture show's soundtrack with Tim Blake Nelson.

Folk Singer Vol. 1 [edit]

Watson's debut solo album, Folk Vocaliser Vol. one, was released May six, 2014 by Acony records. It was produced past David Rawlings, producer of Old Crow Medicine Show albums. The release features ten songs, from folk standards to "obscure gems." As Watson himself describes it,

[The album] happened naturally ... equally shortly as I was playing solo, I started remembering all these old tunes which led me to dig through my 78'due south for more. When we got in the studio, I simply played everything a couple times. It reminded me of making O.C.1000.Southward., where a lot of times we'd simply play songs and allow Dave sort it out.

Bout stops to promote the album release included dates at Nashville area'southward Music City Roots at the Loveless Café, New York City's Mercury Lounge, Philadelphia's World Café Live, and Berkeley's Freight & Salvage.[i] Rolling Rock named the anthology ane of The 26 Albums of 2014 You Probably Didn't But Really Should Hear, stating, "Watson'due south vocalisation carries the weight of generations past, but on Folk Singer, it'southward still advisable for the ane we alive in, correct now."[21] Rawlings, who produced the album, said: "Willie is the only ane of his generation who tin can make me forget these songs were ever sung earlier."[22]

Folk Singer Vol. 2 [edit]

While at piece of work on the 2d volume of Folk Vocalist, Watson stated: "Book two will exist a continuation of Volume ane, and consist of onetime songs."[22] Released September xv, 2017, Folk Singer Vol. ii was produced by David Rawlings and featured collaborations with Gillian Welch, The Fairfield 4, Morgan Jahnig of Sometime Crow Medicine Prove, and Paul Kowert of Punch Brothers.[23] In its review of the new album, The Guardian states nobody makes "the old songs sound fresher" than Watson, "thanks to a vocalism that'southward young but weathered, potent just eerie, and comes backed past intricate banjo and guitar picking."[24]

Tracks [edit]
  1. Samson and Delilah (w/ The Fairfield Four)
  2. Gallows Pole
  3. When My Baby Left Me
  4. Dry out Bones
  5. Walking Dominate
  6. On The Road Once again (w/ The Fairfield Four)
  7. The Cuckoo Bird
  8. Always Lift Him Upward And Never Knock Him Downward
  9. John Henry
  10. Leavin' Dejection
  11. Take This Hammer (due west/ The Fairfield Iv)[25]

Watson says of "Samson and Delilah" by Reverend Gary Davis:[26]

When yous hear him play, information technology stops you in your tracks and makes a guy like me question every musical thing I've ever done. It'south one of those songs I wouldn't have thought I could pull off, just thankfully I had the Fairfield Four to assistance me out.

Films [edit]

Watson appeared as The Kid in the Coen brothers' The Carol of Buster Scruggs (2018), performing in "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings." Written by his personal friends and professional person colleagues Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, the song came about in an interesting way, every bit Welch explains:[27]

There was just a actually bones chat [with producer-director Joel Coen]. He was like, "Look, there'due south the singing cowboy – he'south been effectually for a while. Now here comes the new guy. He'south cuter, he's faster and he sings better. He'southward just better. It'southward the new model. He'south coming for him." And, of grade, it made information technology actually special for us that onscreen, that younger, better, faster gunslinger was gonna be our dearest friend Willie Watson.

Coen besides said, "They accept to be able to sing it together. They have to be able to sing it in one case [the other graphic symbol] has been shot and is expressionless and is floating up to heaven." So information technology was meant to be a duet between singing cowboys, one of whom is expressionless.[27]

Watson performed on "Lazy Old Moon" for another Coen film, Hail, Caesar!, from 2016. He performed in "We'll Understand It Better Past and By" for the Ben Affleck film Live by Night (2016).[28]

Tours [edit]

Watson regularly tours solo and with other acts. In Summer 2016, he toured Australia with Josh Hedley for "a cord of joint-headline shows throughout the east coast" of that land, including the Bello Wintertime Music Festival in Bellingen.[29] The tour included stops in the major cities of Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney where regional "support" acts opened for them—e.g., Imogen Clark, Matt Walker, Freya Josephine Hollick,[29] and Elwood Myre.[30] In Fall of 2016, Watson toured with Aiofe O'Donovan, "captivating" lead singer of Boston progressive string band Kleptomaniacal Notwithstanding—with stops in Ohio,[31] Northward Carolina,[32] and Virginia.[33] Featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions—a Grammy-winning album by Yo-Yo Ma, et al. – O'Donovan released her debut solo album Fossils in 2013.

Influences [edit]

Watson started with his father's tape collection, which included artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, as well every bit Lead Belly. He later discovered Harry Smith'due south Anthology of American Folk Music[5] – which helped trigger the folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Ithaca-Tompkins County area played host to a number of former-time musicians, including banjo actor Richie Stearns whose grouping The Horse Flies mixed former-fourth dimension dabble music with 1980s popular.

They had a drum set and they all plugged in, and Richie Stearns was playing clawhammer banjo. Judy Hyman played the fiddle and would dance effectually the phase, doing this headbang-y thing with her eyes rolling back in her head. I was virtually thirteen, and I would come across this stuff and thought it was the coolest affair I'd always seen. It was dance music, and information technology really moved me in a big way. That was my introduction to former-time music.

Nirvana'southward Unplugged includes a accept on Lead Belly songs "In the Pines/Where Did Y'all Sleep Final Nighttime." Knowing his father had a Atomic number 82 Belly record in the basement, Watson went and got it out. He says: "Really, that changed everything for me right there. It was all coming together at the aforementioned time."[seven] Subsequently which followed the "alternative scene", like the Pixies and They Might Exist Giants.

Vocally, his first influence was Roy Orbison – when he "was, like, 9" – when Orbison had the comeback with "You Got It" and joined the Traveling Wilburys. And he was really into Neil Young, sitting up in his room singing Immature songs in "that higher register." When he eventually started listening to sometime-fourth dimension and "mountain music," he establish that "singing upwardly there, that loftier lonesome sound, sort of put a little more volume behind it."[16]

All of these influences informed the fashion and substance he brings to traditional and old-fourth dimension music. As Watson himself says of his songs:

More than than two-thirds of the songs I'k doing, no ane knows where those things come from. And then the guys that I heard them doing were essentially borrowing and reworking information technology themselves, and that's the beauty of information technology.[iii]

Instruments [edit]

Watson performs on a Larrivée guitar and Gibson five-string banjo.[34]

Discography [edit]

Solo [edit]

  • Folk Singer Vol. 1 (2014)
  • Folksinger Vol. 2 (2017)

One-time Crow Medicine Show [edit]

  • Trans:mission (1998)
  • Eutaw (2001)
  • Greetings From Wawa (2001)
  • OCMS (2004)
  • Big Iron World (2006)
  • Tennessee Pusher (2008)
  • Deport Me Back (2012)

Appearances [edit]

  • Howdy Love – The Be Good Tanyas (2006)
  • A Friend of a Friend – Dave Rawlings Machine (2009)
  • Out on the Open up Due west – Frank Fairfield (2011)
  • Tractor Beam – Richie Stearns* & Rosie Newton (2013)
  • Nashville Obsolete – Dave Rawlings Machine (2015)[35]

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  35. ^ "Nashville Obsolete by Dave Rawlings Automobile". Metacritic . Retrieved Feb 14, 2017.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Spotify: Willie Watson
  • Discogs: Willie Watson
  • Willie Watson at IMDb

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