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Willi Carlisle visits Wyoming Sounds

Willi Carlisle visits Wyoming Sounds
Willi Carlisle visits Wyoming Sounds

Willi Carlisle visits Wyoming Sounds

Midwestern folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Willi Carlisle played a studio session on Wyoming Sounds. He talked with
Grady Kirkpatrick about his new self-produced album Winged Victory, his folk
influences and his music video of Van Life filmed in Laramie.

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Grady has taken a circuitous route from his hometown of Kansas City to Wyoming. Sometime after the London Bridge had fallen down, he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University and actually graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. ("He's a Lumberjack and he's OK……..!") He began his radio career in Prescott in 1982 and eventually returned to Kansas City where he continued in radio through the summer of 1991. Public Radio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky beckoned him to the bluegrass state where he worked as Operations/Program Manager at WKMS in Murray and WNKU in Highland Heights just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.