Willie Watson releases gorgeous live video ahead of UK shows
‘PLAY IT ONE MORE TIME’
BRAND NEW VIDEO - LIVE FROM THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
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‘INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR’ NOMINEE
AT 2025 UK AMERICANA AWARDS
APPEARING AS A ‘SPOTLIGHT’ LIVE PERFORMER AT THE CEREMONY ON 23rd JAN IN LONDON
WILLIE WATSON
WIDELY PRAISED ALBUM NAMED AS
UNCUT ‘AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE MONTH’
+ CLASSIC ROCK’S TOP 5 COUNTRY ALBUMS OF 2024
UK HEADLINE TOUR STARTS JANUARY 2025
INCLUDING CELTIC CONNECTIONS
SUPPORTING LEGENDARY ALISON KRAUSS
ON 73 DATE TOUR OF THE USA IN 2025
Singer-songwriter, poet, actor and multi-instrumentalist Willie Watson has released a live video for his beautiful song ‘Play It One More Time’ taken from the widely acclaimed new self-titled album out now via Little Operation Records and More (Thirty Tigers).
‘Play It One More Time’ ripples with beautiful despair and examines the fleeting balm of music itself, or how the help it gives us can fade when we’re not truly hearing. The new video‘Play It One More Time (Live From The Midnight Special)’is a gorgeous rendition of the track, performed by Willie in the back of an RV alongside Ben Gould on double bass and Sami Braman on fiddle. The video has been shot and directed by Joseph Wasilewski.
The new albumWillie Watsonhas been widely celebrated as one of the greatest Americana albums of 2024. It is nominated for ‘International Album Of The Year’ at the UK Americana Awards 2025, and event where Willie has also been selected to appear as prestigious ‘Spotlight’ performer at the ceremony.
The album has also been championed in Classic Rock Magazine’s Top 5 Country Albums Of 2024 and hailed as Uncut’s Americana Album Of The Month amongst a wealth of further praise for the stunning record.
Willie Watson will commence his UK headline tour in January 2025, which will also include an appearance at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
He will be playing the following shows:
JANUARY 2025
23rdLondon UK Americana Awards
25th Nottingham Bodega
26th Leeds The Old Woollen
27th Liverpool Leaf
28thGlasgow Celtic Connections @ Cottiers Theatre
30th Manchester Night & Day
31st Bristol Thekla
February 2025
1st London 100 Club
Following the UK tour Willie will embark on a huge 73 date tour of the USA with Alison Krauss and Union Station starting in March. Tickets for all Willie Watson shows are available fromhttps://www.williewatson.com/tour
Bringing his beautiful songs to life, Willie Watson has many years of musical output to draw from. However, the centerpiece of the performances will be Watson’s first-ever solo album of original material which, over 20 years into his career, was released worldwide this year.
The former founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show has been a part of numerous musical projects, soundtracks, and films. Yet this new collection of songs is honest and potent, an unadorned reflection of Watson’s life, his mistakes, his traumas, and his gratitude to still be here, to still be alive, and to still be loved. It's the type of record that can’t come early in one’s career and was won after a life of hard battles and difficult lessons.
PRAISE FOR WILLIE WATSON’S SELF-TITLED ALBUM
“Confessional, masterly… Willie Watson reflects on joy, pain, self-destruction, childhood trauma and, ultimately, personal salvation”
9/10 – UNCUT, Americana Album of the Month
“The real charm lies in Watson’s voice… where quiet dignity meets persuasive beauty”
4/5 – MOJO
“Watson owns one of the most distinctive voices in modern Americana; high and melodic, it can also be piercing, plaintive and downright otherworldly”
4/5 – The Observer
“Watson has assembled a superb studio band that has sensitively underpinned his own playing, his affecting voice and songs. ‘Willie Watson’ is such a fine album it’s easy to understand why he’s just stamped it with his own name.”
9/10 – Americana UK
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