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Critterland - CD

Critterland - CD

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For folksinger 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, 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.
1. Critterland 
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Dedicated to the fine folks of Meadowcreek, Fox, Mount Olive, and Mountain View, Arkansas.
Willi: vocals, banjo, harmonica, button- box 
Darrell: guitar, dulcimer, pedal steel

2. Dry County Dust 
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals, guitar
Darrell: Pedal Steel

3. The Arrangements 
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: Vocals, guitar
Darrell: Baritone guitar, lap steel
 
4. The Great Depression
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals, flatpicked guitar, harmonica, banjo
Darrell: Fingerpicked guitar

5. Two-Headed Lamb 
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals, button-box
 
 6. Higher Lonesome 
written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals, harmonica, guitar
Darrell: Mandolin, lap steel  

7. I Want No Children
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals, fiddle
Darrell: Banjo
Jude Brothers: vocals
 
 8. Jaybird
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: Vocals, Banjo
Darrell: Vocals, Guitar, Dulcimer, lap steel
 
9. When the Pills Wear Off 
Written by Willi Carlisle and Billy Keane
Willi: Vocals, Guitar
Darrell: Piano
Jonathan Yudkin: Strings
  
10. The Money Grows on Trees 
Written by: Willi Carlisle
Willi: vocals
Darrell: Front- Porch banjo
Tennessee: Thunder, Rain on a tin roof

Album art by Whit Stone 
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