- About Dan
Dan Wilson is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and Grammy-winning songwriter. Over more than two decades, he has built a reputation as a writer of songs of uncompromising beauty and timeless artistry: a "songwriter's songwriter" whose music has nonetheless many times graced the top of the popular charts.
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Dan Wilson - Free Life
From the album Free Life. Buy now at http://amzn.to/WpcrkX More at http://www.danwilsonmusic.com - Store
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Free Life Ladies Tee
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“Free Life” by Dan and Matt Wilson! That’s the new SFTB song.
My how the time flies. It’s time for another “Song From the Ballroom,” and this one is the surprise I was talking about. It’s a live version of “Free Life” from my brother Matt and my show earlier this year at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.
I love how i …
However Long (Ballroom demo)
The new installment of my “Songs From the Ballroom” is a song called “However Long.” I wrote the first verse and the chorus sometime in the early 2000′s, sang it into my memo device, and forgot all about it for years.
I used to keep a “businessperson memo …
Natalie Maines – Lyric video for her cover of “Free Life”
Natalie Maines and I did a lot of songwriting together with her fellow Dixie Chicks on their “Taking the Long Way” album. Recently we got together for a recording session: she sang harmonies on a couple of songs on my album-in-progress. Then a week or so later, Natalie surprised me by e- …
“Patience” (Ballroom demo)
The next installation of my “Songs From the Ballroom” series is a demo of a song called “Patience.” I recorded it during a solitary six-week period over New Years 2010 in Minneapolis. During that time, I sequestered myself in my third-floor recording space – “ …
“I Want You”
The first song from my “Songs From The Ballroom” series is a live version of “I Want You” from the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, recorded in 2007. I wrote it with Rachael Yamagata for her first full-length solo album “Happenstance.” I always loved the …
“Songs From the Ballroom” starts Monday, 3/25!
Friends & Fans – I’m pleased to announce that this Monday, March 25th, I will be launching “Songs From The Ballroom”, a series of free mp3′s for everyone on my e-mailing list. (Please see link at lower left to sign up). I’ve lined up unreleased master record …
Drawing For My “Songs From the Ballroom” Project
Here’s a drawing I made for my song/clip giveaway project, “Songs From the Ballroom” (see link below left)
- a kind of phantom album cover for an all-digital, non-simultaneous, open-ended collection of rare
& unreleased tracks. In the thick of making it, I thought the …
Update on Dan and Matt Wilson live album-in-progress
Soundcheck at the Pantages. Photo Steven Cohen.
Update on Dan and Matt Wilson live Pantages/BLB album project. I’m either suffering badly from “the Ikea effect” (we love those little tables and bookshelves way more because we put them together ourselves with the little screws …
DW Album Update: Mixing With Ryan Hewitt is Done!
(Me and Ryan Hewitt, last day of mixing, still having fun.)
I’ve been spending many an afternoon in a studio down in Venice, CA, with engineer/producer Ryan Hewitt, who is mixing my album. Or, actually, unless I have some wild notion of changing something down the line (unheard of!), he h …
DW to Guest with The New Standards at LA’s Largo, 2/27/13
People of Los Angeles! I am going to play some songs with my longtime pals and collaborators, jazz trio The New Standards, at Largo on February 27th. TNS are upright bassist John Munson from my bands Semisonic and Trip Shakespeare, Steve Roehm who is all over my last album “Free LifeR …
Dan & Matt’s Pantages Show
Pantages show was inspiring, more relaxed than Bryant Lake Bowl. Somewhat higher quotient of “drunken loud guy thinks he’s the show” than last night. But it takes all kinds I guess and you can’t hand pick them – they pick you. Thanks everyone for coming. Our mom enjoyed …
Dan & Matt Wilson in the City Pages
Dan & Matt Wilson Concert Preview in City Pages, January 29, 2013
My brother Matt and I talked with the City Pages about our upcoming shows at the Bryant Lake Bowl and Pantages Theatre. Read about our love for the Twin Cities, our admiration for Prince’s selling tickets to his drumm …
“Words and Music” Show 3 Illuminated Setlist
Thank you all who came to the “Words and Music by Dan Wilson” show at Room 5 on Thursday.
You listened so closely.
I learned a lot from preparing for it, and by doing it, and I’m pretty excited to do another one.
Here’s another “Illuminated Setlist” for y …
DW to Play Stageit Show January 23rd
http://www.stageit.com/dan_wilson/live_from_my_living_room/17108 …
“Words and Music by Dan Wilson” Show January 24th
ON Jan 24th I’m going to play a “Words and Music by Dan Wilson” show at Room 5 in Hollywood. These “Words and Music” shows are a chance for me to play songs I rarely get to play, and to talk a little more than usual about aspects of songwriting and my path as an artist. …
