Dan Wilson Music
  • 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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  • Appearances
    March 2, 2012 The Independent , San Francisco Buy Tickets
    March 5, 2012 Hotel Cafe, Hollywood Buy Tickets
    March 6, 2012 Hotel Cafe, Hollywood Buy Tickets
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  • Music
    • 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

      Trip Shakespeare Lulu

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    Dan's Complete Discography »
  • Media

    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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  • Blog
    • 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.

    • 2-22-12 Grammys 2012 – Adele’s Clean Sweep!
    • 1-13-12 DW shows with Rachael Yamagata in SF (3/2) and LA (3/5+6)
    • 1-07-12 Ant Island Still
    • 12-18-11 Holiday Message From DW
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  • Store
    • Dan Wilson Live at the Pantages – 2 CD set
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    • Dan Wilson Free Life CD
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    • Minneapolis 2010
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    • Blue Free Life Tee
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    • Red Free Life Tee
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    • Free Life Ladies Tee
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  • Contact

Press Links

Dan Wilson on NPR’s All Things Considered discussing “Someone Like You”, February 13, 2012

Dan Wilson: Hit Man – Minneapolis Star Tribune – February 5, 2012

Anatomy Of A Tear Jerker – Wall Street Journal – February 12, 2012

Dan Wilson in the LA Weekly – February, 2012

The Story Behind “Someone Like You” – American Songwriter – February, 2012

Dan collaborates with Engelbert Humperdink! – January, 2012

Dan’s interview with AOL Spinner from the 2011 South by Southwest Music Festival

American Songwriter Magazine : An Interview with Dan Wilson

Huffington Post: A Conversation with Dan Wilson

 

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  • 1:36 AM Feb 22ndYes! "@skysong263: @DanWilsonMusic Think about how lucky we are that he was here at all." Thank you for that.