Tyler Childers, Producing Willi Carlisle

Tyler Childers produced Willi Carlisle's The Universal Bubba, expanding Carlisle's folk sound. Childers's own "Universal Sound" reveals the artistic kinship that drew him to Carlisle's songwriting.

Tracklist

The Mason Jar at the Center of the World — Willi Carlisle
Gas Station — Willi Carlisle
Universal Sound — Tyler Childers

Transcript

The Mason Jar at the Center of the World — Willi Carlisle

Willi Carlisle opens The Universal Bubba with “The Mason Jar at the Center of the World.” The folksinger made the 17-track album with producer Tyler Childers and Childers’s band over two weeks in a makeshift New Orleans home studio. Carlisle calls it his widest-ranging record yet. He says he used synthesizers and double electric guitars for the first time, and more fretless, 19th-century-style banjo than on any record he’d made before. Hear The Mason Jar at the Center of the World by Willi Carlisle.

Gas Station — Willi Carlisle

Carlisle’s “Gas Station” follows the opener on The Universal Bubba, and it got a video of its own. BroadwayWorld says that video features a Tyler Childers puppet. Childers produced Carlisle’s album with his band; the puppet gives their connection a place on screen, too. Hear Gas Station by Willi Carlisle.

Universal Sound — Tyler Childers

Tyler Childers says Willi Carlisle asked him to produce The Universal Bubba, and he was elated at the chance. Childers calls Carlisle one of his favorite modern songwriters. After two tracks from the album Carlisle made with Childers and his band, “Universal Sound” gives us Childers in a different role: it’s his track from Purgatory. What do you hear when the producer is the artist? Hear Universal Sound by Tyler Childers.