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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

Songs on Folksinger Vol. 2

1	Samson and Delilah	3:03
2	Gallows Pole	4:06
3	When My Baby Left Me	3:49
4	Dry Bones	3:44
5	Walking Boss	2:48
6	On the Road Again	2:27
7	The Cuckoo Bird	3:12
8	Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock ...	2:35
9	John Henry	2:45
10	Leavin' Blues	3:29
11	Take This Hammer	2:59

Top Albums
Folk Singer,... 2014 or	or	or

Top Songs By Willie Watson

	Midnight Special Folk Singer, Vol. 1	or
	Samson and Delilah Folksinger Vol. 2	or
	I Hear Them All / This Land Is Your... Another Day, Another Time: Celebrat...	or
	Keep It Clean Folk Singer, Vol. 1	or
	Rock Salt and Nails Folk Singer, Vol. 1	or
	The Midnight Special Another Day, Another Time: Celebrat...	or
	Gallows Pole Folksinger Vol. 2	or
	On the Road Again Folksinger Vol. 2	or
	Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock ... Folksinger Vol. 2	or

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