Willie Watson & O'Donovan

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Looking like a man from leaner and meaner times, Willie Watson steps on stage with a quiet gravitas. But, when he opens his mouth and lets out that high lonesome vocal, you can hear him loud and clear.

His debut solo album, "Folk Singer Vol. 1,"™ was produced by David Rawlings at Woodland Sound Studios, the studio he co-owns with associate producer Gillian Welch in Nashville, TN, over the course of a pair of two-day sessions, for their own Acony Records label. The album spans ten songs from the American folk songbook ranging from standards like "Midnight Special," "Mexican Cowboy" and Richard "Rabbit" Brown's "James Alley Blues" to the more obscure, like Memphis Slim's 12-bar blues, "Mother Earth," Gus Cannon and the Jug Stompers' "Bring it With You When You Come," Land Norris' double-entendre kids chant, "Kitty Puss" and St. Louis bluesman Charley Jordan's sing-song "Keep It Clean." Like the music, Willie can be murderous, bawdy or lustful, sometimes in the course of a single song, with a sly sense of humor that cuts to the quick. He counters a masterful bravado with the tragic fragility of one who has been wounded.

In 2013 O'Donovan released her debut solo album, "Fossils," a moody collection of original songs with a country lilt. The album garnered praise from The New York Times and Rolling Stone, while The Guardian deemed O'Donovan the “next Americana celebrity." Most recently O'Donovan has lent her voice to the folk trio I'm With Her with singers Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) and Sarah Jarosz.

Doors Open: 7:00 PM | Show Starts: 8:00 PM