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SUMMARY:Willi Carlisle - The Universal Bubba Tour
DESCRIPTION:With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first 
 double album\, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folks
 inger Willi Carlisle and reaches new heights with the added accelerant o
 f first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort\, Childe
 rs and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in the Bywat
 er District of New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Ca
 rlisle’s sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in
  his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space\,” says Carlisle. “I t
 hink this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touch
 es on funk\, it touches on Americana\, Cajun\, oldtime\, and experimenta
 l music.” With Childers’ band behind him\, Carlisle embraced the freedom
  to wander across genres both familiar and new\, testing out instrumenta
 tion and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their 
 head. “It feels like getting drunk at the Civil War reenactment\, or cru
 ising at the cattle auction\, or doing molly at the square dance\,” says
  Carlisle. “It’s the first time I’ve ever used synthesizers and double e
 lectric guitars. There’s also more fretless 19th century style banjo on 
 it than any record I’ve ever made.” Exploration aside\, Carlisle’s missi
 on as a folksinger largely remains the same - documenting the stories an
 d struggles of the people and balancing the humor and hope of existence.
  “I want to make a universal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdos\
 ,” says Carlisle. “With the idea that there is nobody that doesn’t have 
 folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that 
 prove the old weird America didn’t go anywhere\, that we are living and 
 dying for it everyday. I believe there’s noble work to do in that contex
 t. That if we feel despair\, we don’t need to because there’s so much go
 od work to do.” A top candidate for encapsulating the energy of The Univ
 ersal Bubba\, “Gas Station” is a driving recollection of life on the roa
 d with a sing-along chorus. Created largely on the fly and beginning wit
 h Childers’ jokingly referring to a knife-fight\, the end result was Car
 lisle’s only co-write with his producer on the record. “We sat in a circ
 le with pen\, paper\, instruments\,” says Carlisle\, “Tyler suggested\, 
 ‘goodle days’ instead of ‘good old days.’ We kept shaping verses\, agree
 ing that my choruses were working. Suddenly I realized\, this was a co-w
 rite! But the red light was already on. We were co-writing and recording
  at the same time. Wild as hell.” Of the anarchist anthem “The Master’s 
 Hammer”\, Childers wanted a pure\, essential folk song ringing out with 
 harmonica\, banjo and three part harmonies. ”I was trying to boil my ide
 ology down into something I can sing for my friends\,” says Carlisle. Th
 e title tracks sprawl gloriously in two parts\, giving praise to do-it-y
 ourselfers that corral the cosmos into being. Carlisle sings for “booty 
 shaking rock and rollers” and “small town hellraisers” and “unofficial m
 ayors” the world over. Taking on a project of this size with Tyler Child
 ers as debut producer requires hard work\, camaraderie and supreme self 
 confidence. Undeterred by the challenge and grounded in his beliefs\, Ca
 rlisle has proved that it really does “take a Universal Bubba doin’ it f
 or themselves.”\n\nMore info: https://www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/w
 illi-carlisle-the-universal-bubba-tour-12-nov\n\nhttps://findlocal.commu
 nity/event/3d02a536-e090-42af-bc83-e08bbad094a6
LOCATION:Union Stage\, Washington\, DC
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/3d02a536-e090-42af-bc83-e08bbad094a
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