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In 'Gallows Pole,' Willie Watson Makes The Past Sound Vibrant

One of Old Crow Medicine Show's founding members digs into the folk-music canon to refurbish a raw, clear-eyed ballad about doom and damnation.
Willie Watson's new album is titled <em>Folksinger Vol. 2</em>.

L.A. singer, songwriter and actor got his start as a founding member of , in which he spent more than a decade finding new ways to refurbish old sounds. As a solo

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