Label: Signature Sounds

Released 7/18/2025

Within his heart and his music, folksinger Willi Carlisle holds tight the conviction that love is bigger than hate, and no-one is expendable. Deemed "One of country music’s most important and unmistakable voices.” (PASTE), Carlisle’s music has always been a dance between spectacle and philosophy. On his fourth studio (and first self-produced) album, Winged Victory, Carlisle returns with his signature blend of traditionally-rooted folk music and kaleidoscope of oddball characters to confer with his core tenets in more overt and provocative ways. Intent on creating art and a well-rounded life in a broken world, Carlisle directly addresses the hope that by understanding our collective suffering we might be free of it. Rather than a manifesto, the eleven songs on Winged Victory should be understood as a reflection. They revel in the beauty of tiny, monetarily-worthless moments and things, offering with them a consideration of our innate humanity.

Track listing:

1. We Have Fed You All for 1000 Years
2. Wildflowers Growin'
3. Winged Victory
4. The Cottonwood Tree
5. Cryin' These Corksucking Tears
6. The Cottonwood Polka
7. Work Is Work
8. Sound and Fury
9. Beeswing
10. Big Butt Billy
11. Old Bill Pickett