Willie Watson
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.
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Discography
8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Folk Singer Vol. 1
Folk - Released by Acony Records on 6 May 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Folk Singer, Vol. 1
Folk - Released by Acony Records on 6 May 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Folksinger Vol. 2
Folk - Released by Acony Records on 13 Apr 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Folksinger, Vol. 2
Folk - Released by Acony Records on 13 Apr 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Miles Away
Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson
Country - Released by ATO RECORDS on 20 Jun 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Samson and Delilah
Folk - Released by Acony Records on 18 Jul 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo