From the East Texas backwoods, Country Willie Edwards brings songs of past lives, honky tonk nights, lost loves and the unknown. Some call him a recluse, many consider him folk legend.

A farmer by trade who rarely ventures into the city, Country Willie is a man from another time and place. Born on an island in the pines, he grew up leading hymns in front of a small rural Baptist congregation and as a teenager toured the East Texas Opry circuit alongside Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves. Once an Austin fixture at legendary establishments like The Hole in the Wall and The White Horse, he’s now considered an elder statesman in the Texas honky-tonk scene.

With hundreds of original songs to his credit, he’s known as an artist’s artist and is one of the preeminent underground country musicians of our time. It has been said that no one else writes about simpler times, life on other planets, freedom, and salvation in a way that leaves you believing in all of it.