Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson was created in the middle-’70s, but his music most clearly recalls a time whose heyday came a couple of years before he arrived to the world; the deep but soft vibe of his music can be an echo from the Laurel Canyon mellow rock and roll scene from the later ’60s and early ’70s, and it’s really no real surprise that he discovered a house in the same portion of California years following the reality. Wilson was created in Forest Town, NEW YORK on Dec 30, 1974. He was raised encircled by music: his grandfather was a preacher at a Baptist cathedral, and his dad was a musician and bandleader. In 1995, Wilson, who got become an achieved guitarist and keyboardist, shaped the music group Muscadine along with his friend Benji Hughes; the group captured the interest of Sire Information, which agreed upon Muscadine and released their debut record, The Ballad of Wish Nicholls, in 1998. The group split up in 1999, and Wilson spent another many years in transit, living for some time within a hippie community in California, after that in Alpharetta, Georgia, and in NEW YORK to get a spell before settling in Laurel Canyon. On the way, he discovered the rudiments of sound engineering and constructed an impressive assortment of analog documenting gear; he opened up a recording studio room and began functioning as a manufacturer and sideman with a multitude of performers, including Dawes, Erykah Badu, Phil Lesh, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Chris Robinson, Will Oldham, and Shooter Jennings, and in addition joined some of those works on the highway. During his downtime from studio room sessions and street work, Wilson done a solo record where he handled all of the instrumental tasks himself; the task, entitled Frankie Ray, was distributed on CD-R by Wilson himself before finally obtaining a house at Koch Information, who released it in 2007. Wilson also started hosting regular jam classes at his house, which became a nexus for the revitalized Laurel Canyon musical community; Harvey Kubernik, that has been authoring the LA music scene for many years, told the LA Times Magazine in ’09 2009, “Jonathan’s in the epicenter of what’s occurring in the current LC.” For his second single recording, Wilson opted to employ a full band, documenting at his personal Five Star Studio room, which have been relocated to a more substantial space in L.A.’s Echo Recreation area community; featuring looks by Gary Louris, Chris Robinson, Barry Goldberg, Gary Mallaber, and Andy Cabic and Otto Hauser of Vetiver, Mild Spirit premiered by Bella Union Information in nov 2011. It had been accompanied by the Pity Tests & Tomorrow’s Kid EP in 2012. Wilson released Fanfare for Downtown Information in Oct of 2013.