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    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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  • Appearances
    May 19, 2012 Our Lady Of The Lake , Mound Buy Tickets
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    • Dan Wilson Free Life

      Dan Wilson Free Life

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    • Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine

      Semisonic Feeling Strangely Fine

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      Trip Shakespeare Lulu

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    We've Chased Something We Wanted So Far That We Can't Get Back

    What leads a colony of ants to land in a clump on the surface of a swimming pool? How did they get there? Does this happen all the time? Do most of them feel like this is just business as usual? Do a few of them know that something has gone horribly wrong? It all seems very metaphorical to me, of course, partly because I'm not an ant. A small city or a suburb. Planet Earth. I showed the strange little island of ants to my friend Craig, who said, "We've chased something we wanted so far that we can't get back."
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    • The blog is the heart of the Dan Wilson website. In fact, most of the items on the site are blog posts. Blog posts come in several flavors: "The JOURNAL" are DW's writings and comments; "The REEL" are video clips; "The MIXING DESK" are mp3's and sound streams, including recent releases, demos and unreleased songs; "The GALLERY" are photos of Dan and artwork by him; "The WILDCARDS" are special posts that Dan wants to highlight. See them all in the Blog.

    • 3-08-12 Be bold and help will find its way to you.
    • 2-27-12 Dear fellow-songwriters-pitching-me-songs-for-Adele-to-sing:
    • 2-27-12 Dear fellow-songwriters-pitching-me-songs-for-Adele-to-sing:
    • 2-22-12 Grammys 2012 – Adele’s Clean Sweep!
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Grammys 2012 – Adele’s Clean Sweep!

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Dan Wilson: Hit Man  Wall Street Journal - Anatomy of  A Tear Jerker Dan Wilson on NPR's All Things Considered discussing "Someone Like You"                
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  • 2012 (8)
    • May (1)
      • DW on MN Public Radio's "Wits" with Fred Willard, John Moe
    • March (1)
      • Be bold and help will find its way to you.
    • February (3)
      • Dear fellow-songwriters-pitching-me-songs-for-Adele-to-sing:
      • Dear fellow-songwriters-pitching-me-songs-for-Adele-to-sing:
      • Grammys 2012 - Adele's Clean Sweep!
    • January (3)
      • DW shows with Rachael Yamagata in SF (3/2) and LA (3/5+6)
      • Ant Island Still
      • Ant Island
  • 2011 (46)
    • December (5)
      • Holiday Message From DW
      • Me, Gary Louris and The New Standards
      • Dobie Gray Passes Away, Joy of "Drift Away" Remains With Us
      • We Are All 'Closing Time'
      • Jacob Slichter Interview
    • November (1)
      • Internet Meme Poster
    • October (2)
      • Putting Niagara Falls to Good Use
      • My Version of Vic Chesnutt's "Soft Picasso" Out Now
    • September (4)
      • K West Hotel, London, thinking about "The Ambassadors" amidst clamor
      • DW Show in London, Monday September 19th
      • Gabe Dixon & DW singing "My Favorite" on Jimmy Kimmel Live
      • Harmony with Gabe Dixon on Jimmy Kimmel This Thursday 9/8
    • August (3)
      • Personal Olfactory Time Machine
      • My Young Mathematical Nephew, visiting LA, and I, conversing at LACMA this weekend
      • DW Show in London, Monday September 19th!
    • July (1)
      • Mike Doughty said what I was thinking...
    • June (2)
      • Regarding Ground Rules For Collaboration:
      • How to Write A Song You'll Never Hear
    • May (5)
      • "Cotopaxi", DW painting from 1991
      • Here's the MN Original Piece about DW.
      • This artist has an interesting miniature mind
      • Who is That Egomaniac at the Next Table?
      • This is the reason that music might just keep getting better and better
    • April (7)
      • Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" Won the Pulitzer Prize.
      • MN Original DW Profile tonight, May 5th, 7:30pm
      • ASCAP Hitmaker Panel Coming Up
      • These Vibrations are Good
      • "Obstacle #5"
      • Babytalk and Writing Lyrics
      • BBC Radio: pauses in music; "Closing Time" and Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad"
    • March (7)
      • ASCAP Interview in Austin
      • Lefteris Pantazis, Greek Singer, Covers "Breathless"
      • New DW Website - Welcome!
      • Interview in Austin by Spinner.com
      • DW to Play South by Southwest, Friday, 3/18/11
      • Jeremy Messersmith Gets Me Going Again
      • DW painting - "Obstacle 1"
    • February (5)
      • "Closing Time" rendition by The Five One
      • "Something I Don't Know" - new track
      • Adele & DW's "Someone Like You" is #1 in UK!!
      • Tuning Up
      • Recording the new album in The Ballroom and Ballroom West
    • January (4)
      • Are You Lonely Tonight, Mrs. Claus? - new song
      • Happy New Year!!!
      • Reconstruction of the Universe Game painting: "Obstacle 6"
      • Dan and Matt Wilson "Minneapolis 2010" album
  • 2010 (11)
    • December (2)
      • "Everything I Own" DW cover version
      • Are You Lonely Tonight, Mrs. Claus?
    • November (3)
      • Trampolining
      • The Numbers Don't Make Sense
      • Lately
    • June (3)
      • Carnegie Hall
      • Everything Green
      • Against History clip
    • May (1)
      • Storyhill Album "Shade of the Trees"
    • February (2)
      • Happy Valentines Day and a New Song
      • Free Life
  • 2009 (13)
    • September (2)
      • My show at Bryant Lake Bowl, Tuesday Sept. 24th
      • Gappy Information and the Multi-Tasking Illusion
    • August (2)
      • Dan's latest book report is on "The Freedom Manifesto," by Tom Hodgkinson
      • It's a Hustle and a Game and a Gift
    • July (3)
      • Is File-Sharing Immoral?
      • Dan Wilson in Athens
      • Who is the Author and why isn't the drummer getting paid?
    • June (1)
      • My Facebook status updates for June.
    • May (2)
      • Huh? What Happened?
      • Commencement Speech
    • February (1)
      • This Land is Your Land
    • January (2)
      • Star Wars, Muppets, Weddings
      • Star Wars, Muppets, Weddings
  • 2008 (13)
    • December (6)
      • The Long Now; The Short Now
      • "Your Voices" at the Minneapolis Star Tribune
      • My Voice on "Your Voices"
      • Set List for Pantages Show
      • Pantages Theater, Minneapolis, 12/13/08
      • Up to Me, Tangled Up in Blue, Isis
    • November (4)
      • Back From Australia
      • Boys
      • "Free Life" and Alaska
      • Every New Beginning
    • October (2)
      • The Waiting is the Hardest Part
      • "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson
    • August (1)
      • Me and "Against History" back in love
  • 2007 (3)
    • February (1)
      • DW wins Grammy award with Dixie Chicks
    • January (2)
      • DW song on "For New Orleans" CD
      • DW show in Minneapolis, Feb. 14th
  • 2006 (8)
    • December (2)
      • Cedar Cultural Center
      • Song of the Year
    • August (1)
      • Dan Wilson to play Largo, LA, August 16
    • May (1)
      • "Down By the Riverside" album now out!
    • March (1)
      • DW collaboration first Chix single
    • February (1)
      • The Bachelor
    • January (2)
      • "All Will Be Well" on NBC
      • DW in LA at Largo, writing with Lucie Silvas
  • 2005 (11)
    • December (1)
      • DW and Rachael Yamagata
    • November (1)
      • Dan in Nashville
    • October (4)
      • DW jams with Nickel Creek outside State Theater
      • DW to make appearance during Hopefuls' gig
      • Wilson survives shows with Glen Phillips & Garrison Starr
      • New Standards album now available
    • September (2)
      • DW live shows - Milwaukee, Kent, Chicago, Madison
      • New Standards
    • August (1)
      • Gabe Dixon EP with DW tracks now out
    • June (2)
      • The Latest
      • DW & Jason Mraz
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