With his seventh album, Watterson Hall, William Clark Green blends old-country stances and new-country sounds, addressing such subjects as love, partying, and feeling down but keeping your chin up. Throughout the fifty-minute set, Green acknowledges the inevitability of hardships while insisting that life is a gift we should never take for granted. His songwriting skills and talent for delivering an engaging hook are on full display.
Opener “Stubborn and Remains” establishes the album’s two-fold thesis. “This life, it's been trying to kill me / Since the day I opened up my eyes,” Green sings, then adding on the hooky chorus, “I am a man who’s gonna get up / Put the work in, never give up.” As the sayings go: Fall seven times, stand up eight.
