Willi Carlisle earned Artist To Watch honors for last year’s Critterland. It’s time to keep watching because the rootsy Arkansas singer-songwriter is already ready to roll out another album. Winged Victory, set for release in June, features some folk traditionals and a cover of Richard Thompson’s “Beeswing.” There are also songs called “Big Butt Billy” and “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears.” But our first taste of the tracklist is a bluegrass original called “Work Is Work,” on which Carlisle sings about the value of hard labor: “Work is work, or it wouldn’t pay.”
