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Willi Carlisle
The Universal Bubba reaches new heights with the added accelerant of producer Tyler Childers. Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio in the Bywater District of New Orleans to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle’s sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space,” says Carlisle. “I think this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touches on funk, it touches on Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music.” With Childers’ band behind him, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head. “It feels like getting drunk at the Civil War reenactment, or cruising at the cattle auction, or doing molly at the square dance,” says Carlisle. Exploration aside, Carlisle’s mission largely remains the same - documenting the stories and 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 context. That if we feel despair, we don’t need to because there’s so much good work to do.”

Songs

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The Mason Jar at the Center of the World
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Cheap Cocaine E
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Cheap Cocaine (Western AF Version)
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Tulsa's Last Magician (Western AF Version)
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Critterland
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Albums

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The Universal Bubba

2026
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Peculiar, Missouri

2022
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Winged Victory

2025
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To Tell You the Truth

2018
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The Magnolia Sessions

2024
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Tales From Critterland (Live)

2024
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Critterland

2024

Singles & EPs

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The Mason Jar at the Center of the World

Single • 2026
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Work is Work

Single • 2025
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Critterland

Single • 2023
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Big Butt Billy

EP • 2025
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Dry County Dust

Single • 2024
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Willi Carlisle Western AF Field Recordings

Single • 2023
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We Have Fed You All for 1000 Years

Single • 2025
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Higher Lonesome

Single • 2024
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Beeswing

Single • 2025
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When the Pills Wear Off

Single • 2023

Videos

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Willi Carlisle - "The Mason Jar at the Center of the World"

Willi Carlisle • 5.8K views

Live performances

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Willi Carlisle - "Big Tent" (Live at Las Barrancas)

Willi Carlisle • 6.2K views
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Willi Carlisle - "Bread and Roses" (Live at Las Barrancas)

Willi Carlisle • 4.2K views
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Little Birdie || Willi Carlisle || Trad Banjo Song

Willi Carlisle • 10K views

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