Dan Wilson Music

McCabe’s Set List Worksheet

Dan Wilson — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:06:00 +0000

Partway through my set list for Saturday’s McCabe’s show. I’ll probably change it up until the moment of the show, but this is getting there (the set list in the middle of the page.) I used a lot of the …

“Free Life” by Dan and Matt Wilson! That’s the new SFTB song.

Dan Wilson — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:31:40 +0000

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 …

However Long (Ballroom demo)

Jim — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:01:01 +0000

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 …

Natalie Maines – Lyric video for her cover of “Free Life”

Dan Wilson — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:44:43 +0000

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 …

“The Gift” by Lewis Hyde, and the artist as part of a “gift economy.”

Dan Wilson — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:14:03 +0000

Thank you Catherine Forsman for a comment on one of my posts (about the people who don’t want to pay artists and don’t want anyone else to pay them, either.) I was happy you mentioned one of my favorite books, …

“Patience” (Ballroom demo)

Jim — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:41 +0000

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 …

“I Want You”

Jim — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:14:10 +0000

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 …

“Songs From the Ballroom” starts Monday, 3/25!

Dan Wilson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:04:52 +0000

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 …

Drawing For My “Songs From the Ballroom” Project

Dan Wilson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:01:44 +0000

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 …

Update on Dan and Matt Wilson live album-in-progress

Dan Wilson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:59:28 +0000

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 …