Biography
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, Rovi



 
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Willie Watson - Gallows Pole (Official Video)
Willie Watson - "Mexican Cowboy" // The Bluegrass Situation
Willie Watson - Rock Salt & Nails (Live @ Bristol Rhythm & Roots 2013)
Willie Watson - Millennium Stage (September 22, 2022)
Willie Watson - Keep It Clean (Live @ 2013 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion)
Willie Watson, "Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down," // GemsOnVHS™
Willie Watson - "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Live at The Grove House
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