Dan Wilson

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Dan Wilson (born May 20, 1961) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and visual artist.

His songwriting resume includes "Closing Time", which he wrote for his band, Semisonic, "Not Ready to Make Nice" (co-written with the Dixie Chicks) and "Someone like You" (co-written with Adele).

He earned a Grammy nomination for “Closing Time” (Best Rock Song) and won Grammys for Song of the Year (“Not Ready to Make Nice” in 2007) and Album of the Year (which he won in 2012 as one of the producers of Adele’s 21). In addition to being the leader of Semisonic, Wilson has released several solo recordings, including the 2017 release Re-Covered.

He was also a member of the Minneapolis psychedelic rock band Trip Shakespeare.

Early life and education

Wilson is a native of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Wilson attended Harvard University, where he studied visual arts with a focus on printmaking and from which he graduated B.A. summa cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1983, while he resided in Dunster House. Wilson is an accomplished artist, and won the first Louis Sudler Prize for Outstanding Artistic Talent and Achievement in 1983. While in college, he began collaborating with his brother, singer-songwriter Matt Wilson, who also attended Harvard College. The Wilson brothers played in two bands, Animal Dance and the Love Monsters. After college, Wilson pursued his interest in drawing and painting, first in San Francisco and then in Minneapolis.

Personal life

Wilson is married to Diane Espaldon. Wilson and his wife were contemporaries at Harvard University, where he studied visual arts and she studied government. Wilson's wife subsequently earned a M.A. from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Together, they have one biological daughter, Corazon ("Coco") (b. 1997), who was born prematurely and has disabilities and for whom "Closing Time" was written before her birth, and Lily (b. 2007), who was adopted at age two from the Philippines.

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Career

Wilson formed Trip Shakespeare, a Minneapolis psychedelic band that Matt Wilson formed with bassist John Munson and drummer Elaine Harris in 1987. The original three members had already released one album, Applehead Man, and now as a quartet, with Wilson on guitar, piano, and sharing lead vocal duties with Matt Wilson, who co-wrote several of the songs; and Munson, 1992, Twin Tone.

Wilson has continued to collaborate with his brother, including the release of two live albums (Minneapolis 2010 and Minneapolis 2013, respectively) since Trip Shakespeare's breakup in 1992.

Wilson and Munson formed Pleasure after Trip Shakespeare's breakup in 1992, alongside drummer Jacob Slichter, a trio that was later renamed Semisonic. Semisonic has released one EP, three full length albums, and one live album.

Great Divide, the band's debut album, received critical attention. In a year-end Rolling Stone column on the 1996 albums of popular pop, David Fricke said, "Great Divide is the rare '96 beast, a series of straightforward yet burgeoning modern pop, rattling with power-trio vitality." It was also their 1998 debut, Feeling Strangely Fine, which brought the band national and then international attention and success. Wilson's "Closing Time" was a top-one hit on the Modern Rock charts for thirteen weeks in the spring and summer of 1998, while "Singing in My Sleep" and "Secret Smile," the band's first hit on the Modern Rock charts in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom, is a Grammy award-winning pop-culture reference point for the late 1990s. It was a central point of the 2011 film Friends with Benefits' plot and soundtrack.

Wilson's song "Chemistry" was released on Wilson's debut album, as well as "One True Love," a song Wilson co-wrote with Carole King.

Semisonic stopped touring in August 2001 but would continue to perform on occasion. So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star" by Slichter's book, a detailed account of the band's adventures and misadventures in the music business.

Semisonic's first single in nearly 20 years, "You're Not Alone," was released on June 26, 2020, followed by an EP of the same name on September 18, 2020.

American Recordings released Wilson's solo debut, Free Life, in 2007. Free Life was produced in Minneapolis and Los Angeles and stars Tracy Bonham, Sheryl Crow, Jason Lader, Gary Louris, Benmont Tench, Benmont Tench, and a slew of Minneapolis-based musicians, including multi-instrumentalist and regular Semisonic sideman Joe Savage, Eric Fawcett, John Hermanson, Matthew Jennings, Jennings, Joe Savage, Joe Savage, Wilson's Semisonic bandmates Munson and Slich

Wilson's reputation as a songwriter was helped by his Free Life, which is available on A.V. Wilson's remarkable talent for writing stunning songs, as well as his unashamed joy in doing so, is the subject of this magazine. Free Life will help those that are concerned that songcraft is an endangered species.

The song Breathless became a big success in Greece (and other Balkan countries), and Dan Wilson performed it at the 2009 MAD Video Music Awards.

Love Without Fear Wilson's second solo album, Love Without Fear, was released on April 15, 2014, and it features performances by Sara Bareilles, Missy Higgins, Lissie, Natalie Maines, Blake Mills, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins. Love Without Fear's first album, "Disappearing" (with a b-side of Neil Young's "Out on the Weekend) was released on November 7, 2013, marking the first appearance of the new singles brand Canvasclub.

Wilson said on the album, "The songs are about being left alone, not wanting to lose someone," Wilson said of the album's description. The sound of the album exists at a point where Americana and Beatles-influenced rock and roll collide. A little bit of twang and a lot of cinematic emotion," the filmmaker says. Wilson's reputation as a songwriter was largely praised on the album, with most of them praised. "Dan Wilson's career shows that smart, sophisticated songwriting has a place in music." [Love Without Fear] is a wonderful blend of chamber rock, delicate country, gooey '70s pop, and snappy soul, with a subtle blend of chamber rock, delicate country, gooey '70s pop, and snappy soul.

Wilson's third solo studio album, Re-Covered, was released on August 4, 2017. Wilson's collection of reinterpretations of songs, including "songs that I always wished were big hits but weren't." "Someone Like You" (written with Adele), "Not Ready To Make Nice" (written with Dierks Bentley and Brett Beavers), and "When The Stars Come Out" (written by Chris Stapleton) appear on the album.

Wilson revealed in September 2018 that he would begin performing new music this fall. Rather than organizing the new songs into an album, he'll eventually unleash them as monthly singles over time. "I fell in love with the prospect of simply allowing songs out into the world as they occur," Wilson said. "I have no objections against recording an album." If I do 15 or 20 of these, I would love the possibility of packing them together and labeling it an album. I think that'd be fantastic, but I don't really have that in mind. I'm just trying to be free."

Wilson's discoveries as a solo artist and collaborator with other artists are the subject of "Words and Music by Dan Wilson," a series in which he performs some of his songs and discusses the songs' various inspirations or insights that prompted their creation. "Words and Music by Dan Wilson" has returned to Hotel Cafe, Room 5 and Largo in Los Angeles, Joe's Pub and City Winery in New York, Jammin' Java in Minneapolis, The Fitzgerald Theater in Chicago, Berklee College of Music's Red Room at Cafe 939 in Minneapolis, and the Red Barn concert series in Northfield, MN, with Brown's Tavern in Washington, MN. Wilson has also presented Words & Music workshops at the 2012 ASCAP show, UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music, and the Thornton School of Music in the United States.

Wilson's thoughts about songwriting and the creative process are also captured in his series, Words & Music in Six Seconds, which was originally released on Vine and is now available on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Wilson provides "in his short videos, Wilson provides insightful quips about common songwriting techniques, research, personal writing quirks, and several other writing tips for writing your best."

Wilson, both as a writer and producer, has collaborated with a number of musicians. Grammy Awards have been given to two of these collaborations.

Wilson's ability has been described by a number of musicians as being able to bring their feelings and concepts to life. Pink said in an online interview, "He is brilliant, and he's a thoughtful songwriter." And he's a song crafter. . . It's like old-school. He makes songs and writes about them. "I learned a lot from working with him." "Dan had me on my hands and knees, screaming my eyes out, and I couldn't have that made me fully open up as a composer," Adele said when discussing her co-writing with Wilson.

Wilson co-wrote six of Wilson's songs On the Long Way, a Grammy Award-winning album from the Dixie Chicks, which included the title song and "Not Ready to Make Nice" which received Wilson and the Dixie Chicks the 2007 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Wilson appears on camera in the 2006 film Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, mainly for helping the Dixie Chicks recover from their disapproving by radio and a large number of their followers in the aftermath of the band's remarks about President Bush and the Iraq War.

"Easy Silence," one of his songs on his record, appears on Free Life, with Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines singing harmony.

Wilson co-wrote three of Adele's multi-Grammy-winning 21 songs, including "Don't You Remember," "One and Only," and, most notably, "Somebody Like You," a top ten hit in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Wilson received the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year as a producer of this album, on which he also performed piano.

Wilson chronicled the writing and recording of "Someone Like You" in an interview with an American Songwriter.

Adele said, "I want to thank Dan Wilson, who wrote this song with me," after she accepted the award. When I wrote this book, my life changed, and I felt it before anyone else heard it."

"Someone Like You" was the most downloaded single in the United Kingdom at that time, and it was voted third most popular single in the country over the last 60 years.

Wilson's career as a painter, illustrator, and calligrapher is less well known, but his artwork has often correlated with his musical career. Thomas Barry Fine Arts in Minneapolis was his artist, and his works have appeared in countless private and corporate collections.

Wilson's paintings are included in two of Trip Shakespeare's albums' artwork, Are You Shakespearenced? Lulu's on the front page of his first solo album, Free Life, as well as the front page of his first solo album, Free Life.

Wilson supervised all of the artwork on his album Love Without Fear in 2014. The most notable of all, a hand illustrated Deluxe Album Book/CD. Wilson's own calligraphy, sketches, and handwritten lyrics for each song on the album are included in the set. The official lyric videos for his singles from the album, "Disappearing" and "A Song Can Be About Anything," were both made entirely from his own photos.

Audience members are led by Wilson to illuminated set lists that are hand illustrated. On NPR's website, one of these set lists was highlighted.

Wilson's calligraphy and illustrations are included in his Tumblr collection "DW's Sketchbook," as well as his musical cartoons on The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy Blog.

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