Willi Carlisle - The Universal Bubba Tour

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Willi Carlisle - The Universal Bubba Tour Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Thunderbird Music Hall 4053 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA Doors @ 7:00 PM Show @ 8:00 PM AGE RESTRICTION: 18+ or with legal guardian https://www.willicarlisle.com/ With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first double album, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and reaches new heights with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort, Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in the Bywater District of New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that expand Carlisle’s sonic scrapbook and capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space,” says Carlisle. “I think this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touches on funk, it touches on Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music.” With Childers’ band behind him, Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head. “It feels like getting drunk at the Civil War reenactment, or cruising at the cattle auction, or doing molly at the square dance,” says Carlisle. “It’s the first time I’ve ever used synthesizers and double electric guitars. There’s also more fretless 19th century style banjo on it than any record I’ve ever made.” Ticket Tier Info: General Admission Tickets - Standing Room Only For accessible seating accommodations, please send an email in advance to contact@thunderbirdmusichall.com after ticket purchase. All sales are final.