Willie Watson
Date and Time
Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Location
The Southgate House Revival - Sanctuary
111 E Sixth Street
Newport, KY 41071
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Event Details
Standing Room OnlySoon before Willie Watson turned 18, he met God in an apple orchard. Or at the very least, he met there a man named Ruby Love, the older friend of a high-school buddy who had an enormous Martin guitar and a seemingly bigger understanding of the American folk songbook.Watson was existentially thirsty: A high-school dropout from upstate New Yorks Finger Lakes, he was fast on his way to his first heartbreak and in a first band that didnt take itself seriously enough. But that night in an apple orchard that had always seemed magical, at a graduation party for one of his bandmates and best friends, Watson and Love sang a few of those old songs togetherWorried Man Blues and Tennessee Waltz. It was the first time Watson had cried while singing, the first time he had made the connection between making music and making sense of his life. He never saw Ruby Love again, but within months of that foundational 1997 rendezvous, he met the musicians with whom hed soon start Old Crow Medicine Show. Call it revelation, fate, resurrection, whatever you will; for Watson, more than a quarter-century later, itwas a duet with the divine.
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