Willi Carlisle

Willi Carlisle plays Antone's Nightclub on Thursday, February 25, 2027. He's a folk singer-songwriter who pulls from traditional, punk, and country styles, and his songs tend to look at queer life and rural America. He's a multi-instrumentalist and a USA Fellowship recipient, and his albums include Peculiar, Missouri, Critterland, and Winged Victory.

Winged Victory is the one that'll likely be front and center. It continues the direct, folk-rooted address to collective suffering that Rolling Stone called "a beautiful folk document of American reckoning and redemption" in 2024. He wrote the album's first single, "Work is Work," in a motel room along the Mississippi River, and spent the fall touring the United States with dates in the UK and the Netherlands and an opening slot for Sierra Ferrell in Edmonton.

Antone's is a 750-capacity room in downtown Austin that opened in 1975, known as the "Home of the Blues" and a place that's hosted everyone from B.B. King to Stevie Ray Vaughan. They still serve the original Antone's Famous Po Boys, created by Jalal in 1962. The show starts at 8 PM at 305 E 5th St.