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Willi Carlisle Celebrates Doers and Builders on Hefty, Rollicking 'The Universal Bubba'
The spirit of “the universal bubba” revealed itself to Willi Carlisle a few years ago while at his grandmother’s house. In that very space, the folk singer-songwriter had witnessed the matriarch prepare a lifetime’s worth of meals — dicing, mincing, julienning onions with effortless skill — often with a
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