…featuring live cuts and an alternate version of the song “One to Fall” called… “One to Fall (Again)”.
Willie Watson has always operated on the periphery. Even in the making of his own story. First, he was harmonizing on early versions of “Wagon Wheel” in high school, as a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. After he left the band in 2011, he drifted into various projects with The Watkins Family and David Rawlings and Gilian Welch. He even showed up in the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, both on-screen and on the film’s soundtrack, singing “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.”
As a solo artist, he’s released two albums, both produced by Rawlings and both titled Folk Singer. Comprised of traditional songs and…