The abundant, 17-track double album was cut with the Tyler Childers backing band, The Food Stamps, at a makeshift all DIY recording studio constructed in the Bywater District of New Orleans. It was recorded over a two week span. Along with whatever \u201cexperimental music\u201d it might contain, Willi Carlisle also assures, \u201cThere\u2019s also more fretless 19th-century-style banjo on it than any record I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/em> We shouldn\u2019t be entirely surprised that someone of the stature of Tyler Childers would take two weeks away from his family and mules in Kentucky to record an underground record with Willi Carlisle. His songs and the unique vision Carlisle brings to music has made many fans within the artist community. It does feel slightly out of left field that Childers would choose Willi as his first test pigeon for producing beyond his own projects. But it\u2019s also 100% deserved for the boost Willi will receive.<\/p> Willi Carlisle goes on to say, \u201cI want to make universal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdo<\/em>. With the idea that there is nobody that doesn\u2019t have folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that prove the old weird America didn\u2019t go anywhere, that we are living and dying for it every day. I believe there\u2019s noble work to do in that context. That if we feel despair, we don\u2019t need to because there\u2019s so much good work to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p> Ahead of the album, Willi Carlisle has released the new song \u201cMason Jar At The Center Of The World\u201d (listen below). Carlisle wrote the song while touring with Tyler Childers in Australia. The Universal Bubba<\/em> is now available for pre-order<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TRACK LIST: <\/strong><\/p> 01 \u201cMason Jar At The Center Of The World\u201d![\"\"](\"https:\/\/savingcountrymusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/willi-carlisle-the-universal-bubba.jpg\")
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