89-849: For the NZ comedy film, see Carry Me Back (film) . 2012 studio album by Old Crow Medicine Show Carry Me Back [REDACTED] Studio album by Old Crow Medicine Show Released July 17, 2012 Studio Sound Emporium (Nashville, TN) Genre Folk country Length 37 : 01 Label ATO Records Producer Ted Hutt Old Crow Medicine Show chronology Tennessee Pusher (2008) Carry Me Back (2012) Remedy (2014) Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] link Carry Me Back
178-411: A 2024 tour across North America , performing as a trio with fiddler/violinist Sami Braman and original Old Crow Medicine Show bass player Ben Gould. Watson started with his father's record collection, which included artists like Bob Dylan and Neil Young , as well as Lead Belly . He later discovered Harry Smith 's Anthology of American Folk Music – which helped trigger the folk music revival in
267-647: A Cayamo cruise—a "singer-songwriter, folk, rootsy festival on a ship around the Bahamas ." Sean "took the liberty" of putting Watson on the performance schedule. He subsequently would "go pretty often and ... sing a few songs" at "this little revue called the Watkins Family Hour at Largo" where the Watkins would encourage him to try appearing solo. In 2012–2013 Watson began appearing in venues in and around Venice Beach, California , making appearances with
356-565: A Whiff on Me " " See See Rider " " Union Maid " " Wagon Wheel " Films Transamerica (2005) Big Easy Express (2012) Authority control databases [REDACTED] MusicBrainz release group Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carry_Me_Back&oldid=1238762119 " Categories : 2012 albums Albums produced by Ted Hutt Nettwerk Records albums Old Crow Medicine Show albums Hidden categories: Articles with hatnote templates targeting
445-403: A compilation of songs created by any average listener of music. The songs on a mixtape generally relate to one another in some way, whether it be a conceptual theme or an overall sound. After the introduction of Compact discs, the term "Mixtape" began to apply to any personal compilation of songs on any given format. The sales of Compact Cassettes eventually began to decline in the 1990s, after
534-424: A current or former member of a musical group which is released under that artist's name only, even though some or all other band members may be involved. The solo album appeared as early as the late 1940s. A 1947 Billboard magazine article heralded " Margaret Whiting huddling with Capitol execs over her first solo album on which she will be backed by Frank De Vol ". There is no formal definition setting forth
623-561: A customer buys a whole album rather than just one or two songs from the artist. The song is not necessarily free nor is it available as a stand-alone download, adding also to the incentive to buy the complete album. In contrast to hidden tracks , bonus tracks are included on track listings and usually do not have a gap of silence between other album tracks. Bonus tracks on CD or vinyl albums are common in Japan for releases by European and North American artists; since importing international copies of
712-459: A good place with that. In 2018, Willie made his film debut as "The Kid" in the Coen brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs . He also performed "When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" on the film's soundtrack with Tim Blake Nelson – a performance that resulted in an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song . In 2020 Watson appeared as a guest vocalist on the song "Fly Around" by
801-726: A guy like me question every musical thing I've ever done. It's one of those songs I wouldn't have thought I could pull off, but thankfully I had the Fairfield Four to help me out. Watson makes his first appearance on an Old Crow Medicine Show track since leaving the group on "Miles Away", lead single on Jubilee (released August 2023 through ATO Records ). Little Operation Records releases Watson's first "fully original solo album" self-titled Willie Watson on September 13, 2024. On this record, he renews "musical bonds" with Paul Kowert and Gabe Witcher of Punch Brothers , not to mention "keyboard legend" Benmont Tench . Watson released
890-406: A little more volume behind it." All of these influences informed the style and substance he brings to traditional and old-time music. As Watson himself says of his songs: More than two-thirds of the songs I'm doing, no one knows where those things come from. So the guys that I heard them doing were essentially borrowing and reworking it themselves, and that's the beauty of it. Watson performs on
979-414: A lot of people don't have that, and I never take it for granted. I found a direction in life at a very young age. He first met Ben Gould in high school and they began playing music together. Around Ithaca and next-door Tompkins County "a lot of old-time fiddle music" was being played, some of it by banjo player Richie Stearns and the group Donna The Buffalo . Watson was exposed to old-time music firsthand at
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#17327574083391068-680: A lot of the people we met there, like Richie Stearns, the Red Hots and Mac Benford. All those old-time banjo players brought the music from the South back up to New York, and it was kind of a hotbed. – Critter Fuqua The group left Ithaca for their Trans:mission tour in October 1998, busking west across Canada. They circled back east in Spring of 1999 and moved into a farmhouse on Beech Mountain , near Boone, North Carolina . They were embraced by
1157-489: A lot of times we'd just play songs and let Dave sort it out. Tour stops to promote the album release included dates at Nashville area's Music City Roots at the Loveless Café , New York City's Mercury Lounge , Philadelphia 's World Café Live, and Berkeley 's Freight & Salvage. Rolling Stone named the album one of The 26 Albums of 2014 You Probably Didn't But Really Should Hear , stating, "Watson's voice carries
1246-510: A nonexistent page Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with hAudio microformats Album articles lacking alt text for covers Articles with music ratings that need to be turned into prose Album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music ) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette ), or digital . Albums of recorded sound were developed in
1335-447: A single artist, genre or period, a single artist covering the songs of various artists or a single artist, genre or period, or any variation of an album of cover songs which is marketed as a "tribute". Willie Watson (musician) William Currie Watson (born September 23, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo player, actor and founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show . His debut solo album Folk Singer, Vol. I ,
1424-522: A single case, or a triple album containing three LPs or compact discs. Recording artists who have an extensive back catalogue may re-release several CDs in one single box with a unified design, often containing one or more albums (in this scenario, these releases can sometimes be referred to as a "two (or three)-fer"), or a compilation of previously unreleased recordings. These are known as box sets . Some musical artists have also released more than three compact discs or LP records of new recordings at once, in
1513-433: A solo album for several reasons. A solo performer working with other members will typically have full creative control of the band, be able to hire and fire accompanists, and get the majority of the proceeds. The performer may be able to produce songs that differ widely from the sound of the band with which the performer has been associated, or that the group as a whole chose not to include in its own albums. Graham Nash of
1602-414: A studio. However, the common understanding of a "live album" is one that was recorded at a concert with a public audience, even when the recording is overdubbed or multi-tracked. Concert or stage performances are recorded using remote recording techniques. Albums may be recorded at a single concert , or combine recordings made at multiple concerts. They may include applause, laughter and other noise from
1691-430: A studio. Studios are built to absorb sound, eliminating reverberation , to assist in mixing different takes; other locations, such as concert venues and some "live rooms", have reverberation, which creates a "live" sound. Recordings, including live, may contain editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology , artists can be recorded in separate rooms or at separate times while listening to
1780-406: A theme such as the "greatest hits" from one artist, B-sides and rarities by one artist, or selections from a record label , a musical genre , a certain time period, or a regional music scene. Promotional sampler albums are compilations. A tribute or cover album is a compilation of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may involve various artists covering the songs of
1869-516: A trend of shifting sales in the music industry , some observers feel that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album . An album may contain any number of tracks. In the United States, The Recording Academy 's rules for Grammy Awards state that an album must comprise a minimum total playing time of 15 minutes with at least five distinct tracks or a minimum total playing time of 30 minutes with no minimum track requirement. In
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#17327574083391958-430: A way of promoting the album. Albums have been issued that are compilations of older tracks not originally released together, such as singles not originally found on albums, b-sides of singles, or unfinished " demo " recordings. Double albums during the seventies were sometimes sequenced for record changers . In the case of a two-record set, for example, sides 1 and 4 would be stamped on one record, and sides 2 and 3 on
2047-478: A weekly old-time jam. Both Watson and Gould dropped out of school and formed the band The Funnest Game, which like Richie Stearns' group The Horse Flies had "clawhammer banjo, electric guitar, drums." Their brand of electric/ old-time was heavily influenced by the old-time scene prominent in Tompkins and Schuyler County, New York , including The Horse Flies and The Highwoods Stringband. Performing locally,
2136-580: Is any vocal content. A track that has the same name as the album is called the title track. A bonus track (also known as a bonus cut or bonus) is a piece of music which has been included as an extra. This may be done as a marketing promotion, or for other reasons. It is not uncommon to include singles, B-sides , live recordings , and demo recordings as bonus tracks on re-issues of old albums, where those tracks were not originally included. Online music stores allow buyers to create their own albums by selecting songs themselves; bonus tracks may be included if
2225-555: Is not necessarily just in MP3 file format, in which higher quality formats such as FLAC and WAV can be used on storage media that MP3 albums reside on, such as CD-R-ROMs , hard drives , flash memory (e.g. thumbdrives , MP3 players , SD cards ), etc. The contents of the album are usually recorded in a studio or live in concert, though may be recorded in other locations, such as at home (as with JJ Cale's Okie , Beck's Odelay , David Gray's White Ladder , and others), in
2314-402: Is recorded on both the "A" and "B" side of the tape, with cassette being "turned" to play the other side of the album. Compact Cassettes were also a popular way for musicians to record " Demos " or "Demo Tapes" of their music to distribute to various record labels, in the hopes of acquiring a recording contract . Compact cassettes also saw the creation of mixtapes , which are tapes containing
2403-3206: Is the fourth studio album by folk / country / old time band Old Crow Medicine Show , released on July 17, 2012. It was the group's first release on ATO Records , and their first album produced by Ted Hutt . The album was the band's last to feature founding-member Willie Watson , and the first to feature multi-instrumentalist Cory Younts. Track listing [ edit ] No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocal Length 1. "Carry Me Back to Virginia" Ketch Secor, Kevin Hayes, Willie Watson Secor 2:40 2. "We Don't Grow Tobacco" Secor, Watson Watson 3:55 3. "Levi" Secor Secor 2:50 4. "Bootlegger's Boy" Secor Secor 3:26 5. "Ain't it Enough" Secor, Jason White , Watson Secor 3:59 6. "Mississippi Saturday Night" Gill Landry , Secor Secor 3:01 7. "Steppin' Out" Landry, Felix Hatfield Landry 2:15 8. "Genevieve" Landry Landry 2:28 9. "Country Gal" Hayes, Secor Hayes 2:44 10. "Half Mile Down" Secor, Jim Lauderdale Secor 3:01 11. "Sewanee Mountain Catfight" Secor, Watson, Hayes, Cory Younts, Morgan Jahnig Secor 2:25 12. "Ways of Man" Secor Secor 4:20 Personnel [ edit ] Old Crow Medicine Show Kevin Hayes - guitjo , vocals Morgan Jahnig - bass, percussion Gill Landry - banjo, vocals, dobro, resophonic guitar Ketch Secor - fiddle, vocals, harmonica, guitar, banjo Willie Watson - guitar, vocals, banjo, percussion Cory Younts - mandolin, vocals, percussion, guitar, keyboards Special Guests Critter Fuqua - accordion on "Ways of Man", harmony vocals on "Country Gal" Jim Lauderdale - harmony vocals on "Ways of Man" Chart performance [ edit ] Chart (2012) Peak position U.S. Billboard 200 22 U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 4 U.S. Billboard Top Folk Albums 1 U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums 5 External links [ edit ] Old Crow Medicine Show (official site) v t e Old Crow Medicine Show Ketch Secor Morgan Jahnig Cory Younts Mike Harris Mason Via Dante Pope PJ George Joe Andrews Critter Fuqua Kevin Hayes Gill Landry Chance McCoy Jerry Pentecost Robert Price Willie Watson Charlie Worsham Studio albums O.C.M.S. (2004) Big Iron World (2006) Tennessee Pusher (2008) Carry Me Back (2012) Remedy (2014) Volunteer (2018) Paint This Town (2022) Jubilee (2023) Live albums 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (2017) Songs " Cocaine Habit/Take
2492-1170: The Ben Affleck film Live by Night (2016). Watson regularly tours solo and with other acts. In Summer 2016, he toured Australia with Josh Hedley for "a string of joint-headline shows throughout the east coast" of that country, including the Bello Winter Music Festival in Bellingen . The tour included stops in the major cities of Brisbane , Melbourne , and Sydney where regional "support" acts opened for them—e.g., Imogen Clark, Matt Walker, Freya Josephine Hollick, and Elwood Myre. In Fall of 2016, Watson toured with Aiofe O'Donovan, "captivating" lead singer of Boston progressive string band Crooked Still —with stops in Ohio , North Carolina, and Virginia. Featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions —a Grammy -winning album by Yo-Yo Ma , et al. – O'Donovan released her debut solo album Fossils in 2013. Watson appeared with Old Crow Medicine Show, as an opening act and with
2581-522: The John C. Reilly band and John Prine , and opening for acts such as Punch Brothers , Sarah Jarosz , and Dawes . Initially he was performing original music, then realized he got more out of performing the old songs—and his audience seemed to enjoy them more. As he explains: Once I was on my own, I wasn't sure what my next move was–if I was going to have another band, or try to write a bunch of songs. At first, I did start writing songs, but I don't think I
2670-520: The iPod , US album sales dropped 54.6% from 2001 to 2009. The CD is a digital data storage device which permits digital recording technology to be used to record and play-back the recorded music. Most recently, the MP3 audio format has matured, revolutionizing the concept of digital storage. Early MP3 albums were essentially CD-rips created by early CD- ripping software, and sometimes real-time rips from cassettes and vinyl. The so-called "MP3 album"
2759-444: The 1950s and 1960s. The Ithaca-Tompkins County area played host to a number of old-time musicians, including banjo player Richie Stearns whose group The Horse Flies mixed old-time fiddle music with 1980s pop. They had a drum set and they all plugged in, and Richie Stearns was playing clawhammer banjo . Judy Hyman played the fiddle and would dance around the stage, doing this headbang-y thing with her eyes rolling back in her head. I
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2848-524: The 1970s. Appraising the concept in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said most "are profit-taking recaps marred by sound and format inappropriate to phonographic reproduction (you can't put sights, smells, or fellowship on audio tape). But for Joe Cocker and Bette Midler and Bob-Dylan -in-the-arena, the form makes a compelling kind of sense." Among
2937-415: The 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s before sharply declining during the 1990s. The cassette had largely disappeared by
3026-443: The 25-minute mark. The album Dopesmoker by Sleep contains only a single track, but the composition is over 63 minutes long. There are no formal rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as "albums". If an album becomes too long to fit onto a single vinyl record or CD, it may be released as a double album where two vinyl LPs or compact discs are packaged together in
3115-557: The Appalachian community, and their repertoire of old-time songs grew as they played with local musicians." After being discovered busking in Boone, North Carolina by Doc Watson —while "playing on Doc's old corner" where he'd "started playing in the 1950s" on King Street —the famed folk-country legend said, "Boys, that was some of the most authentic old-time music I've heard in a long while. You almost got me crying." Doc invited
3204-496: The Hollies described his experience in developing a solo album as follows: "The thing that I go through that results in a solo album is an interesting process of collecting songs that can't be done, for whatever reason, by a lot of people". A solo album may also represent the departure of the performer from the group. A compilation album is a collection of material from various recording projects or various artists, assembled with
3293-494: The Long Playing record format in 1948, it was natural the term album would continue. Columbia expected that the record size distinction in 78s would continue, with classical music on 12" records and popular music on 10" records, and singles on 78s. Columbia's first popular 10" LP in fact was Frank Sinatra's first album, the four-record eight-song The Voice of Frank Sinatra , originally issued in 1946. RCA's introduction of
3382-614: The United Kingdom and Ireland takes him to Bristol , Glasgow, Manchester , Sheffield , London, and Dublin . He appears at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville during September. Of his transition to a solo career, Watson says: I don't have any regrets, but I'm really happy that I'm where I'm at now. I'm playing the music I want to play, and it's real simple, and I don't have a big light show–I'm in
3471-527: The United Kingdom, the criteria for the UK Albums Chart is that a recording counts as an "album" if it either has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs . Albums such as Tubular Bells , Amarok , and Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield , and Yes's Close to the Edge , include fewer than four tracks, but still surpass
3560-413: The album can be cheaper than buying a domestically released version, Japanese releases often feature bonus tracks to incentivize domestic purchase. Commercial sheet music is published in conjunction with the release of a new album (studio, compilation, soundtrack, etc.). A matching folio songbook is a compilation of the music notation of all the songs included in that particular album. It typically has
3649-526: The album's artwork on its cover and, in addition to sheet music, it includes photos of the artist. Most pop and rock releases come in standard Piano/Vocal/Guitar notation format (and occasionally Easy Piano / E-Z Play Today). Rock-oriented releases may also come in Guitar Recorded Versions edition, which are note-for-note transcriptions written directly from artist recordings. Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one-half of
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3738-511: The album. If a pop or rock album contained tracks released separately as commercial singles , they were conventionally placed in particular positions on the album. During the sixties, particularly in the UK, singles were generally released separately from albums. Today, many commercial albums of music tracks feature one or more singles, which are released separately to radio, TV or the Internet as
3827-479: The amount of participation a band member can solicit from other members of their band, and still have the album referred to as a solo album. One reviewer wrote that Ringo Starr 's third venture, Ringo , "[t]echnically... wasn't a solo album because all four Beatles appeared on it". Three of the four members of the Beatles released solo albums while the group was officially still together. A performer may record
3916-510: The audience, comments by the performers between pieces, improvisation, and so on. They may use multitrack recording direct from the stage sound system (rather than microphones placed among the audience), and can employ additional manipulation and effects during post-production to enhance the quality of the recording. Notable early live albums include the double album of Benny Goodman , The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert , released in 1950. Live double albums later became popular during
4005-478: The band to participate in his annual MerleFest music festival, founded in 1988 in memory of Doc's son Eddy Merle Watson, who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College and to celebrate "traditional plus" music. There they met Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings who introduced them to the Nashville music scene, where they promptly relocated. Watson performed with
4094-406: The best selling live albums are Eric Clapton 's Unplugged (1992), selling over 26 million copies, Garth Brooks ' Double Live (1998), over 21 million copies, and Peter Frampton 's Frampton Comes Alive! (1976), over 11 million copies. In Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , 18 albums were live albums. A solo album , in popular music , is an album recorded by
4183-462: The bluegrass band Water Tower . The song is the second track on their debut album by the same name. On July 7, 2024, Watson performed with other musical acts, e.g., Joe Walsh , Ben Harper , Stephen Stills , etc. at the 84th birthday celebration for Ringo Starr in Beverly Hills, California . Watson's debut solo album, Folk Singer Vol. 1 , was released May 6, 2014 by Acony records. It
4272-551: The early 1900s, the typical 10-inch disc could only hold about three minutes of sound per side, so almost all popular recordings were limited to around three minutes in length. Classical-music and spoken-word items generally were released on the longer 12-inch 78s, playing around 4–5 minutes per side. For example, in 1924, George Gershwin recorded a drastically shortened version of his new seventeen-minute composition Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The recording
4361-456: The early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album ; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm . The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era . Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in
4450-506: The early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78s were bundled in book-like albums (one side of a 78 rpm record could hold only about 3.5 minutes of sound). When LP records were introduced, a collection of pieces or songs on a single record was called an "album"; the word was extended to other recording media such as compact disc, MiniDisc , compact audio cassette, 8-track tape and digital albums as they were introduced. An album (Latin albus , white), in ancient Rome,
4539-624: The field – as with early blues recordings, in prison, or with a mobile recording unit such as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio . Most albums are studio albums —that is, they are recorded in a recording studio with equipment meant to give those overseeing the recording as much control as possible over the sound of the album. They minimize external noises and reverberations and have highly sensitive microphones and sound mixing equipment. Band members may record their parts in separate rooms or at separate times, listening to
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#17327574083394628-491: The first decade of the 2000s. Most albums are recorded in a studio , although they may also be recorded in a concert venue , at home, in the field, or a mix of places. The time frame for completely recording an album varies between a few hours to several years. This process usually requires several takes with different parts recorded separately, and then brought or " mixed " together. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed "live", even when done in
4717-495: The first single, "Real Love", with a Joseph Wasilewski -directed video starring Watson himself with his wife, Mindy. Watson owns one of the most distinctive voices in modern Americana; high and melodic, it can also be piercing, plaintive, and downright otherworldly, an echo from the time “old weird America” was amassing its treasury of song. – The Guardian *based on Sterling A. Brown ’s poem, “Slim Greer in Hell”. Six of
4806-500: The form of a prototype. Compact Cassettes became especially popular during the 1980s after the advent of the Sony Walkman , which allowed the person to control what they listened to. The Walkman was convenient because of its size, the device could fit in most pockets and often came equipped with a clip for belts or pants. The compact cassette used double-sided magnetic tape to distribute music for commercial sale. The music
4895-480: The form of boxed sets, although in that case the work is still usually considered to be an album. Material (music or sounds) is stored on an album in sections termed tracks. A music track (often simply referred to as a track) is an individual song or instrumental recording. The term is particularly associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks; the term is also used for other formats such as EPs and singles . When vinyl records were
4984-415: The front cover and liner notes on the back or inside cover. Most albums included three or four records, with two sides each, making six or eight compositions per album. By the mid-1930s, record companies had adopted the album format for classical music selections that were longer than the roughly eight minutes that fit on both sides of a classical 12" 78 rpm record. Initially the covers were plain, with
5073-492: The group, at tour stops in 2023 — including their annual New Year's Eve show at the Ryman Auditorium . He performs on "select shows" of the group's 2024 North American tour, designed to commemorate in part the 25th anniversary of Old Crow's founding. As co-founder Ketch Secor said of the reunion, "we’re just so psyched to get back together with an architect of Old Crow in this anniversary year." Watson embarked on
5162-399: The group, writing and singing many of their more notable songs. He left to embark on a solo career in the autumn of 2011, a couple months before Fuqua rejoined the group, citing time on the road, new parenthood, and direction the band was headed as reasons for the split. Watson's transition to solo appearances began slowly with an invitation from siblings Sean and Sara Watkins to join them on
5251-487: The mid-1960s to the late 1970s when the Compact Cassette format took over. The format is regarded as an obsolete technology, and was relatively unknown outside the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation , along with Ampex , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Motorola , and RCA Victor Records . It
5340-481: The name of the selection and performer in small type. In 1938, Columbia Records hired the first graphic designer in the business to design covers, others soon followed and colorful album covers cover became an important selling feature. By the later '30s, record companies began releasing albums of previously released recordings of popular music in albums organized by performer, singers or bands, or by type of music, boogie-woogie , for example. When Columbia introduced
5429-443: The other parts of the track with headphones to keep the timing right. In the 2000s, with the advent of digital recording , it became possible for musicians to record their part of a song in another studio in another part of the world, and send their contribution over digital channels to be included in the final product. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing or multi-tracking are termed "live", even when done in
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#17327574083395518-438: The other parts using headphones ; with each part recorded as a separate track . Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, and lyrics or librettos . Historically, the term "album" was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage, the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from
5607-414: The other. The user would stack the two records onto the spindle of an automatic record changer, with side 1 on the bottom and side 2 (on the other record) on top. Side 1 would automatically drop onto the turntable and be played. When finished, the tone arm's position would trigger a mechanism which moved the arm out of the way, dropped the record with side 2, and played it. When both records had been played,
5696-484: The paper cover in small type were the words "Record Album". Now records could be stored vertically with the record not touching the shelf, and the term was applied to the collection. In the early nineteenth century, "album" was occasionally used in the titles of some classical music sets, such as Robert Schumann 's Album for the Young Opus 68, a set of 43 short pieces. With the advent of 78 rpm records in
5785-406: The primary medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves and many album covers or sleeves included numbers for the tracks on each side. On a compact disc the track number is indexed so that a player can jump straight to the start of any track. On digital music stores such as iTunes the term song is often used interchangeably with track regardless of whether there
5874-432: The publishers of photograph albums. Single 78 rpm records were sold in a brown heavy paper sleeve with a large hole in the center so the record's label could be seen. The fragile records were stored on their sides. By the mid-1920s, photo album publishers sold collections of empty sleeves of heavier paper in bound volumes with stiff covers slightly larger than the 10" popular records. (Classical records measured 12".) On
5963-404: The record industry as a standard format for the "album". Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums. The term "album" was extended to other recording media such as 8-track tape , cassette tape , compact disc , MiniDisc , and digital albums, as they were introduced. As part of
6052-452: The release and distribution Compact Discs . The 2010s saw a revival of Compact Cassettes by independent record labels and DIY musicians who preferred the format because of its difficulty to share over the internet . The compact disc format replaced both the vinyl record and the cassette as the standard for the commercial mass-market distribution of physical music albums. After the introduction of music downloading and MP3 players such as
6141-448: The smaller 45 rpm format later in 1948 disrupted Columbia's expectations. By the mid-1950s, 45s dominated the singles market and 12" LPs dominated the album market and both 78s and 10" LPs were discontinued. In the 1950s albums of popular music were also issued on 45s, sold in small heavy paper-covered "gate-fold" albums with multiple discs in sleeves or in sleeves in small boxes. This format disappeared around 1960. Sinatra's "The Voice"
6230-461: The song came about in an interesting way, as Welch explains: There was just a really basic conversation [with producer-director Joel Coen ]. He was like, "Look, there's the singing cowboy – he's been around for a while. Now here comes the new guy. He's cuter, he's faster and he sings better. He's just better. It's the new model. He's coming for him." And, of course, it made it really special for us that onscreen, that younger, better, faster gunslinger
6319-728: The soundtrack. William Currie Watson was born in Watkins Glen, New York ( Schuyler County ), and raised there, in Upstate New York , around Ithaca . Growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Watson listened to music on the radio – from Michael Jackson to Nirvana – but also his father's record albums, including The Rolling Stones and Neil Young . He recalls: I was just exposed to all kinds of stuff and . . . it could have been anything, and I would still be playing music because I could sing like anybody or anything I wanted to. I guess I still can . . . That's why I feel so fortunate –
6408-463: The three assembled musicians around Ithaca, New York "where there is a very lively old-time music scene." According to Mac Benford, Ithaca had for 40 years "been a center of old time music, nationally," including Kevin Hayes They recorded Trans:mission , a cassette of ten songs they could sell on the road. Ithaca and that surrounding area was a big influence on us. We wouldn't be here without
6497-617: The time he was sixteen" with "this group that had some congas and some clawhammer banjo ." Watson met future co-founder of Old Crow Medicine Show Ketch Secor after the latter finished high school in New Hampshire , his band broke up in Virginia , and he enrolled in Ithaca College . Secor brought friend and former bandmate Chris "Critter" Fuqua up to New York State from Virginia. Watson dissolved The Funnest Game while
6586-546: The tracks are originals, co-written (largely) with Morgan Nagler. Kenneth Pattengale and Gabe Witcher produced the album with a studio band that included Dylan Day on guitar, Paul Kowert on bass, Sami Braman on fiddle, and Jason Boesel on drums. Watson appeared as The Kid in the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), performing in "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings." Written by his personal friends and professional colleagues Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings,
6675-464: The user would pick up the stack, turn it over, and put them back on the spindle—sides 3 and 4 would then play in sequence. Record changers were used for many years of the LP era, but eventually fell out of use. 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8: commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound recording technology popular in the United States from
6764-452: The weight of generations past, but on Folk Singer , it's still appropriate for the one we live in, right now." Rawlings, who produced the album, said: "Willie is the only one of his generation who can make me forget these songs were ever sung before." While at work on the second volume of Folk Singer , Watson stated: "Volume two will be a continuation of Volume one, and consist of old songs." Released September 15, 2017, Folk Singer Vol. 2
6853-674: The young band earned the respect of local musicians and gained a following, appearing weekly at the Rongovian Embassy with Richie Stearns and annually at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York . Future bandmate Ketch Secor described it as a "young folksy kind of jam element acoustic band that was really popular in the southern tier region of New York State." Watson, he says, "was playing shows statewide by
6942-452: Was a board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts, and other public notices were inscribed in black. It was from this that in medieval and modern times, album came to denote a book of blank pages in which verses, autographs, sketches, photographs and the like are collected. This in turn led to the modern meaning of an album as a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item. The first audio albums were actually published by
7031-548: Was a further development of the similar Stereo-Pak four-track cartridge created by Earl "Madman" Muntz . A later quadraphonic version of the format was announced by RCA in April 1970 and first known as Quad-8, then later changed to just Q8. The Compact Cassette was a popular medium for distributing pre-recorded music from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. The first "Compact Cassette" was introduced by Philips in August 1963 in
7120-518: Was about thirteen, and I would see this stuff and thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. It was dance music, and it really moved me in a big way. That was my introduction to old-time music. Nirvana 's Unplugged includes a take on Lead Belly songs " In the Pines / Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." Knowing his father had a Lead Belly record in the basement, Watson went and got it out. He says: "Really, that changed everything for me right there. It
7209-669: Was all coming together at the same time." After which followed the " alternative scene ", like the Pixies and They Might Be Giants . Vocally, his first influence was Roy Orbison – when he "was, like, 9" – when Orbison had the comeback with " You Got It " and joined the Traveling Wilburys . And he was really into Neil Young, sitting up in his room singing Young songs in "that higher register ." When he eventually started listening to old-time and "mountain music," he found that "singing up there, that high lonesome sound, sort of put
7298-445: Was gonna be our dear friend Willie Watson. Coen also said, "They have to be able to sing it together. They have to be able to sing it once [the other character] has been shot and is dead and is floating up to heaven." So it was meant to be a duet between singing cowboys, one of whom is dead. Watson performed on "Lazy Old Moon" for another Coen film, Hail, Caesar! , from 2016. He performed in "We'll Understand It Better By and By" for
7387-399: Was issued in 1952 on two extended play 45s, with two songs on each side, in both packagings. The 10-inch and 12-inch LP record (long play), or 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. A single LP record often had the same or similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, and it was adopted by
7476-508: Was issued on both sides of a single record, Victor 55225 and ran for 8m 59s. By 1910, though some European record companies had issued albums of complete operas and other works, the practice of issuing albums was not widely taken up by American record companies until the 1920s. By about 1910, bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album"
7565-462: Was printed on some covers). These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes. The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them. In the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78s by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums, typically with artwork on
7654-448: Was produced by David Rawlings , producer of Old Crow Medicine Show albums. The release features ten songs, from folk standards to "obscure gems." As Watson himself describes it, [The album] happened naturally ... as soon as I was playing solo, I started remembering all these old tunes which led me to dig through my 78's for more. When we got in the studio, I just played everything a couple times. It reminded me of making O.C.M.S. , where
7743-541: Was produced by David Rawlings and featured collaborations with Gillian Welch, The Fairfield Four , Morgan Jahnig of Old Crow Medicine Show, and Paul Kowert of Punch Brothers . In its review of the new album, The Guardian states nobody makes "the old songs sound fresher" than Watson, "thanks to a voice that's young but weathered, strong but eerie, and comes backed by intricate banjo and guitar picking." Watson says of "Samson and Delilah" by Reverend Gary Davis : When you hear him play, it stops you in your tracks and makes
7832-715: Was released in May 2014; its follow-up Folksinger, Vol. 2 was released September 15, 2017 on Acony Records. He has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival and other major music festivals. He released a self-titled album of his first collection of self-penned songs on September 13, 2024. He currently resides in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles. Watson appears as The Kid in Joel and Ethan Coen 's 2018 film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs , also performing on
7921-973: Was satisfied with what I was writing. I was starting to do some solo shows, and I had a few songs I'd written, and I would do a mix of those with old traditional songs, at those early shows. I was a lot happier doing those old folk songs, and I think the crowd was a lot happier, too. I thought those were great songs that people should be hearing, and that I wanted to be singing. In 2014, he performed at SXSW in Austin , Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California , Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island , Pickathon Music Festival in Oregon , Fayetteville Roots Festival in Arkansas , and Steelfest in Missouri . A tour of
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