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Bobby Wills
12+ albums
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Bobby Wills If It Was That Easy Usually when people say they ‘found themselves’ through music, they don’t mean it in quite the way Bobby Wills does. If his latest album, If It Was That Easy, is any indication, we’re all better off because he started looking. Adopted as a baby and raised in Calgary, Alberta, as a teenager Wills was more interested in street hockey than songwriting. It was finding his biological family just after turning 20 that convinced Wills the musical path he’d started down on a visit to Australia was set long before he first picked up a guitar. “We were at an open mic night and my buddy bet me $20 that I wouldn’t get up and sing with the band, so I did,” Wills says of the Australian trip. “I sang “The Dance” by Garth Brooks and there was a reaction from the crowd that I didn’t anticipate. It was amazing. I’d always poked around music but I’d never put any real effort into it, so I started to learn to play guitar while I was over there.” Just after returning from Australia, Wills received a call from the adoption registry he’d joined after turning 18; his mother had also registered and they wanted to know if he was still interested in making the connection. Wills didn’t hesitate. Finding his mother led to a series of earth-shaking discoveries, including the existence of five siblings and a musical streak a mile wide that ran throughout his biological family. “My dad was a huge country music fan,” he says of the man who raised him, “so that’s where I
