Name: Peculiar Missouri
Brand: Willi Carlisle

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DIRTLP0105

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Limited edition

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2022-08-05

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Artist

Willi Carlisle

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Country / Americana

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Free Dirt

Free Dirt is a Grammy-nominated independent record label founded by John Smith and Erica J. Haskell in 2006. Over the years, Free Dirt has released music from talented artists such as *Pokey LaFarge*, *Anna & Elizabeth*, *Hackensaw Boys*, *Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge* (Grammy-nominated), *Cahalen Morrison*, *Dori Freeman*, *JP Harris*, and *The Two Man Gentlemen Band*. In addition to their impressive roster, Free Dirt collaborates with PM Press to co-release spoken word and folk music, featuring lectures by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, as well as music from Chumbawamba, Leon Rosselson, Robb Johnson, and more. Furthermore, Free Dirt serves as a distributor for several other roots labels including Jalopy (Brooklyn), Big Muddy (St. Louis), Hi-Style (Nashville), and Mashed Potato (New Orleans).

Folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, Willi Carlisle, brings a unique blend of performative, academic, and teaching experiences to his music. With an MFA in Poetry and a BA in Writing and Performance Studies, he approaches folklore and theatre-arts with an interdisciplinary perspective. Known for his all-ages programming, Carlisle calls square dances and plays fiddle, banjo, squeezebox, and guitar. He also presents and publishes folklore while occasionally creating moving panoramas. His style is rooted in Ozark old-time music combined with antique influences.

Carlisle's versatility shines through as he effortlessly switches between banjo, accordion, fiddle, and guitar during performances that have earned him accolades across the USA as well as in the UK and Canada. Sharing the stage with acts like Dom Flemons and Los Texmaniacs has solidified his reputation as a talented musician. Despite drawing comparisons to old balladeers and bluesmen due to his expressive voice and commanding presence on stage,

Willi Carlisle's songs are fresh yet timeless - exploring themes of love, heartache, joy with authenticity. Audiences will find themselves laughing or shedding tears alongside him as he weaves larger-than-life stories into his performances.

Don't call Willi Carlisle a poet, he's a folk singer for the people.

Like his hero Utah Phillips, Carlisle's extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn't about high falutin' pontificatin'; it's about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. On his anticipated second album, the magnum opus Peculiar, Missouri, Carlisle makes the case across twelve epic tracks that love truly can conquer all. Born and raised on the Midwestern plains, Carlisle is a product of the punk to folk music pipeline that's long fuelled frustrated young men looking to resist. After falling for the rich ballads and tunes of the Ozarks, where he now lives, he began examining the full spectrum of American musical history.

This insatiable stylistic diversity is obvious on Peculiar, Missouri which was produced by Grammy-winning engineer and Cajun musician Joel Savoy in rural Louisiana.

The songs range from sardonic honky-tonk barnburners like "Vanlife" to the heartbreaking queer waltz "Life on the Fence." The album also imbues class consciousness in songs like "Este Mundo," a cowboy border ballad about water rights, and the title track's existential talkin' blues about a surreal panic attack in Walmart's aisle five. Though Carlisle's poetic words evoke the mystical American storytelling of Whitman, Sandburg, and cummings, ultimately this is bonafide populist folk music. Carlisle recognizes that the only thing holding us back from greatness is each other. With Peculiar, Missouri, he brings us one step closer to breaking down our divides.

Peculiar Missouri

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Discover Peculiar Missouri by Willi Carlisle. LP and CD formats available. Populist folk music from the punk to folk pipeline. Free Dirt label.