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Willie Watson
Singer/Songwriter
The next Willie Watson concert is scheduled for Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater in Decatur, IL, United States. See all 53 upcoming concerts
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About Willie Watson
Hometown
United States of America
Born
September 23, 1979
Genre
Singer/Songwriter
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
Willie Watson has also released music as a member of Burrito Deluxe and Old Crow Medicine Show.
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