Willie Watson

Folksinger, multi-instrumentalist (electric guitar, banjo, harmonica), and sometimes songwriter Willie Watson heard a Business lead Tummy record when he was 12 years of age and his music course was place. Developing up in Watkins Glen, NY, Watson paid attention to his father’s record collection, including plenty of performers like Bob Dylan and Neil Little, aswell as Lead Tummy, and afterwards he uncovered Harry Smith’s well-known folk anthology, which up to date the design and element of the original and old-time music Watson would make his very own. He was among the founding people of the Aged Crow Medicine Present, a quintet that specific in a normal American string music group sound and got left-field platinum achievement using a revamped Bob Dylan tune, “Wagon Steering wheel,” in the past due ’90s, documenting and touring using the group for a few 17 years before departing to go single in 2011. He released his debut single album, Folk Vocalist, Vol. 1, made by David Rawlings, early in 2014 on Rawlings and Gillian Welch’s Acony Information imprint.