More about Dan Wilson
Songwriter, singer
Wilson is a singer, songwriter and sometime visual artist from Minneapolis. He has a recent solo album, "Free Life." Wilson's band Semisonic, plays shows once in a while and you can still hear their songs on the radio. His band, Trip Shakespeare, doesn't perform anymore, but you can look them up on YouTube to watch the band. Wilson writes songs with a lot of great artists, one of which is "Not Ready to Make Nice" which he wrote with the Dixie Chicks and for which they won the Song of the Year Grammy in 2007. Wilson is currently working on a batch of songs for his next album and for other people's albums, too.
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I saw a really interesting and amazingly civil discussion online about the question: "Is illegally sharing music immoral?"
The link is here:
<a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2009/07/is-downloading-music-illegally-the-same-as-stealing.shtml" target="_blank">http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2009/07/is-downloading-music-illegally-the-same-as-stealing.shtml</a>
After reading the thread I got excited about posting a comment, but my comment got super-long, so I made a shorter comment and put the longer one on my blog. Here is the shorter comment, and then a link to the longer comment on my blog:
The link is here:
<a href="http://danwilsonblog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://danwilsonblog.blogspot.com</a>
The link is here:
<a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2009/07/is-downloading-music-illegally-the-same-as-stealing.shtml" target="_blank">http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2009/07/is-downloading-music-illegally-the-same-as-stealing.shtml</a>
After reading the thread I got excited about posting a comment, but my comment got super-long, so I made a shorter comment and put the longer one on my blog. Here is the shorter comment, and then a link to the longer comment on my blog:
This discussion is really interesting and amazingly civil. I started a comment but it got way too long. So I put my comment on my blog rather than putting a huge long space-hogger here. It's on danwilsonblog.blogspot.com instead.
"Arts, Inc" by Bill Ivey, is a book which argues that the copyright policy has been hijacked by large corporations who don't give a rip about artists or the public's access to great art. Dry, but super-interesting.
Also just finished "The Gift" by Lewis Hyde, which addresses a lot of these issues, in a peaceful and optimistic meander that eventually takes on the artist's role in society and how to feel good about it. It's a really inspiring book for the artists out there who wonder just how much our culture really values them, if it does at all.
Bought both books, by the way, didn't borrow them! :)
For my too-long comment, go to either my myspace blog (myspace.com/danwilsonmusic) or my blogspot blog:The link is here:
<a href="http://danwilsonblog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://danwilsonblog.blogspot.com</a>
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