Willi Carlisle | 'Tulsa's Last Magician' | Western AF

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Mixed and Mastered by: Curtis Harnish
Editor: Manuel Deakins
Second Camera: Damien Washington
Executive Producers: Travis Blankenship, Johnny Callahan & C.E. Eschenburg II
Chords and Lyrics Copy: Cedar River
Special thanks: Beaux the Puppy & Cloverlick Banjo Shop Family
Producers: Brian Harrington & Mike Vanata ( Square State Film )

Shot at the Cloverlick Banjo Shop in Fort Collins, CO

All rights reserved 2022 © Square State Film

[Willi-Carlisle]

Thanks to the WAF team and all y'all...When I wrote this, I thought it was garbage-- there's a part of all this where you never know what you're doing, just certain you have to do it. The release matters, the joy changes everything, especially when we sing together. Thanks for listening, friends. You're the magic! It's you. Always has been.

[davidgreenwood]

Sir, if this song was all you'd done with your life, I'd say you'd have repaid the debt of whatever resources you've consumed and perhaps even whoever's hearts you've broken along the way. godspeed friend.

[oggser]

listening to this while you're making a playlist to distract yourself for a shift at a job you don't care about hits DIFFERENT

[GemsOnVHS]

This might be my favorite Carlisle song. Can't lie.

[michaelkennedy]

That tear must contain every emotion known to humanity.

[LewdMobster]

yes yes yes, This is still one of my favourites. Possibly top 3, such passionate story telling. I'll listen to this with my eyes closed, the images pop up in my head and I'll let a tear fall down. Goosebumps.

[nlong]

A national treasure. We must protect this man...from major record labels.

[xaviernorman]

Being a magician from a small town in Indiana and coming to Florida to seek treatment from drug addiction and to chase my dream of becoming a professional magician this song hits home in a way I really can't explain but greatly appreciate. Thank you so much.

[fm-]

This song is about feeling like a pariah only to find out that life doesn’t care, so you end up playing the game of life all the way to the stone. It’s a song about modern life. It’s very relatable.

[CraigBaldwinmusic]

This song is incredible. I’m a better person for hearing it. So very well done, sir.

[joshduncan]

Willi Carlisle, the modern day poet to the world. The lyrics, my lord the lyrics. Tugs on your heartstrings and every emotion you never thought you had. He is a true treasure.

[MFJoneser]

Whoops best song ive heard in approx 20 years

[donnope]

Hey Willi, I don’t know you’ll even see this, but I just want to state how incredibly important and essential your music is to my life. To find artists like you, Nick and Benjamin Todd during my lifetime is literally equivalent to discovering Shakespeare living at the same time as me. Artists like you are quite literally the only reason I choose to carry on. Even if you were to never make another penny off of what you do, you should know that you are the true definition of an artist. I hold you in the same ranks that I hold Whitman and Bukowski and Hemingway. I genuinely thank you for what you do.

[PhilipBowenMusic]

I have listened to this a million times and it ain't enough

[Myrzghe]

"someone's true religion always someone else's joke" is the best line I've heard in a while. Song hits hard

[TheWolfElder]

This song hurts so much. New level of pain.

[retrievergolden]

If you ever get the chance to see this amazing storyteller live, don't miss it!

[deadair]

Gets me every time. I'm not a cobbler or mechanic or magician even but this song speaks to something deep inside me, I don't even understand why but it brings me to tears evey time

[dewgreen]

This may be the most amazing song ever written.

Goose fucking bumps.

[jacobbell]

I just want to say thank you I'm crying every time I listen to this as a Young old man