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SUMMARY:Willi Carlisle - The Universal Bubba Tour
LOCATION:Soda Bar
DESCRIPTION:21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego.\n\nWith a heavy-
 duty catalog of new material for a career first double album\, The Univers
 al Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and rea
 ches new heights with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Ch
 ilders. In an all-time DIY effort\, Childers and his band convened to a ma
 keshift home studio nestled in the Bywater District of New Orleans for two
  weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle’s sonic scrapbook and captu
 re the off-kilter characters living in his songs.\n\n“I think this one g
 oes 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 Am
 ericana\, Cajun\, oldtime\, and experimental music.” With Childers’ ba
 nd behind him\, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both
  familiar and new\, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surrea
 lity of traditions being turned on their head. “It feels like getting dr
 unk at the Civil War reenactment\, or cruising at the cattle auction\, or 
 doing molly at the square dance\,” says Carlisle. “It’s the first ti
 me I’ve ever used synthesizers and double electric guitars. There’s al
 so more fretless 19th century style banjo on it than any record I’ve eve
 r made.”\n\nExploration aside\, Carlisle’s mission as a folksinger lar
 gely remains the same - documenting the stories and struggles of the peopl
 e and balancing the humor and hope of existence. “I want to make a unive
 rsal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdos\,” says Carlisle. “Wit
 h the idea that there is nobody that doesn’t have folk songs and everyon
 e deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that prove the old weird Amer
 ica 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 despa
 ir\, we don’t need to because there’s so much good work to do.”\n\nA
  top candidate for encapsulating the energy of The Universal Bubba\, “Ga
 s Station” is a driving recollection of life on the road with a sing-alo
 ng chorus. Created largely on the fly and beginning with Childers’ jokin
 gly referring to a knife-fight\, the end result was Carlisle’s only co-w
 rite with his producer on the record. “We sat in a circle with pen\, pap
 er\, instruments\,” says Carlisle\, “Tyler suggested\, ‘goodle days
 ’ instead of ‘good old days.’ We kept shaping verses\, agreeing that
  my choruses were working. Suddenly I realized\, this was a co-write! But 
 the red light was already on. We were co-writing and recording at the same
  time. Wild as hell.”\n\nOf the anarchist anthem “The Master’s Hamme
 r”\, Childers wanted a pure\, essential folk song ringing out with harmo
 nica\, banjo and three part harmonies. ”I was trying to boil my ideology
  down into something I can sing for my friends\,” says Carlisle.\n\nThe 
 title tracks sprawl gloriously in two parts\, giving praise to do-it-yours
 elfers that corral the cosmos into being. Carlisle sings for “booty shak
 ing rock and rollers” and “small town hellraisers” and “unofficial
  mayors” the world over.\n\nTaking on a project of this size with Tyler 
 Childers as debut producer requires hard work\, camaraderie and supreme se
 lf confidence. Undeterred by the challenge and grounded in his beliefs\, C
 arlisle has proved that it really does “take a Universal Bubba doin’ i
 t for themselves.”\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/l8kxyl-willi-carlis
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