Willi Carlisle – “Gas Station”

Willi Carlisle's Tyler Childers-produced double album The Universal Bubba is shaping up swimmingly. We've thus far heard the old-school folk reel "Mason Jar At The Center Of The World" and the barroom rocker "Marlboro Vinyassa." This week Carlisle added another new single that comes with an extremely fun music video."Gas Station" is a Southern-fried road-trip rambler about subsisting on food from your local petrol hub. It's already so much fun on a strictly musical axis, but then Carlisle went and added a music video in which he and a crew of Muppet-like puppets drive to the gas station to eat hot dogs for dinner. It's a blast, quite literally at the end.Carlisle shared some notes about writing "Gas Station" with Childers and co-producer Kenny Miles:Coming into the recording session, this song felt like a strong draft, like something left in the fridge to proof or set like a dough. I liked it though: my whole life summarized. All this work, hauling, beating up the highway, singing for hours, just to eat dinner at the gas station. It was late in our two weeks of recording before we got to this song, and I kept wondering if we would cut it.But Tyler came into the studio, wild-eyed, g...