Crispy Watkins is a songster, chaplain, and tender of ancestral fires dedicated to music as somatic soul care.  Crispy was raised in the hills of East Tennessee, formed by fiddle tunes, Delta Blues, and Knoxville's scruffy Americana. Earth honoring and heart opening, Crispy’s music brings to life the understanding articulated by Wendell Berry: “I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.”

The building of beloved community, the practice of reciprocity, and the innate desire to create beauty motivates Crispy to share what they dub “Appalachian spirit-folk with an ecological devotion and a mystic heart.” You can find Crispy weaving folk tales in Fort Collins, CO, since 2014.