Critterland, by Willi Carlisle

Critterland

by Willi Carlisle

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Bart I don't know if I like this as much as his last album, but that's one hell of a standard. Willi still tells a captivating story. People struggling against the grindstone and public perception to boot. Album sounds great, and I hope to finally get to see him live soon. One of my favorite singer-songwriters in the last few years. Favorite track: When The Pills Wear Off.

Solituned Starts off strong and ends up stronger. This is special. Favorite track: The Arrangements.

Yimmy Kil Such a unique and honest artist. Each album he has gotten better. His lyrics are heartfelt and often times achingly real. In order to fully appreciate his art one must see his live show. There is nothing like it out there. One of the best writing songs today. Favorite track: The Arrangements.

erik carlson Willi continues to grow in strength and skill. If this track is any indication, this will be spectacular

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1.	Critterland 04:09	buy track
2.	Dry Country Dust 04:27	buy track
3.	The Arrangements 04:31	buy track
4.	The Great Depression 03:21	buy track
5.	Two-Headed Lamb 03:39	buy track
6.	Higher Lonesome 04:25	buy track
7.	I Want No Children 02:40	buy track
8.	Jaybird 03:53	buy track
9.	When The Pills Wear Off 04:10	buy track
10.	The Money Grows on Trees 07:11	buy track

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For folk singer Willi Carlisle, singing is healing. And by singing together, he believes we can begin to reckon with the inevitability of human suffering and grow in love. On his latest album, Critterland, Carlisle invites audiences to join him: “If we allow ourselves to sing together, there's a release of sadness, maybe even a communal one. And so for me personally, singing, like the literal act of thinking through suffering, is really freeing,” he says.

Rooted in the eclectic and collective world of his live shows, Carlisle’s third album and debut for Signature Sounds, Critterland takes up where his sophomore album, Peculiar, Missouri left off, transforming Peculiar’s big tent into a Critterland menagerie and letting loose the weirdos he gathered together. The album is a wild romp through the backwaters of his mind and America, lingering in the odd corners of human nature to visit obscure oddballs, dark secrets and complicated truths about the beauty and pain of life and love.

Produced by the GRAMMY Award-nominated Darrell Scott and to be released Jan. 26, 2024 by Signature Sounds, Critterland considers where we come from and where we are going. On the album, he takes on human suffering through stories about forbidden love, loss, generational trauma, addiction, and suicide, believing that by processing the traits and trauma we inherit, he can reach a deeper understanding of what it means to succeed and to exist.

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released January 26, 2024

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Willi Carlisle Fayetteville, Arkansas

WILLI CARLISLE is a poet and a folk singer for the people, but his 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.

For Carlisle, singing is healing. And by singing together, he believes we can begin to reckon with the inevitability of human suffering and grow in love. ... more

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