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Wisely
12+ albums
indieamericansoft rockpower poplos angeles
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The official biography from http://www.evocativepop.com/ "A genuine album in a singles era, Wisely asks James Blunt and Jenny Lewis to close their eyes and touch noses with twelve songs for change, California, and Billy Preston that signal the graduation of a cult hero into rich, real life. Looking back: once there was a kid named Willie who couldn't decide if he wanted to be John Lennon, Paul Westerberg, or Sammy Davis Jr. Luckily, it was the late 80's in Minneapolis. You could be all three at once. He enjoyed some success at this. Of course the kid was ahead of his time and, of course, Willie Wisely had to leave home to shake off that youthful genius and just be genius. Dinkytown Living in a teetering Victorian dive in Dinkytown, the university crossroads where a Zimmerman once became a Dylan, Wisely made music by day and worked in the famous First Avenue nightclub promotions office downtown at night. He saw every band that mattered twice and perfected his own approach with a scrappy pop-punk-jazz quartet he called his trio. They toured like madmen, crisscrossing the American highways, playing college commons, dives, and rec rooms. After two, fine W.W. Trio albums, Wisely went solo. The year was 1996: Endtroducing..., If You're Feeling Sinister, Pinkerton, She. She "It easily heads up the short list of the area's finest pop record of the year." - St. Paul Pioneer Press Released on a label owned by the guy who wrote "Funkytown," She was the record in Wisely's head wh
