"On Monday 8th August Laurel Canyon folk singer, producer, musician Jonathan Wilson will release his Bella Union debut ‘Gentle Spirit’ in to the World… it is a record rooted in the spirit of Laurel Canyon sounding like a lost 70’s classic with nods to Neil Young and Roy Harper"
"Gentle Spirit" was produced by himself, recorded in Laurel Canyon, then finished in his new Five Star Studio in the Echo Park section of LA. It features legendary musicians as special guests including Barry Goldberg, Gerald Johnson and Gary Mallaber, and some friends including Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), Andy Cabic and Otto Hauser (Vetiver), Chris Robinson and Adam McDougall (Black Crowes), Johnathan Rice, among others. All songs were written by Wilson except Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Way I Feel' (1967).
"Jonathan Wilson, a native of Forest City, North Carolina, has been quietly earning a reputation as a musical jack-of-all-trades. He is adept behind the recording console, possesses a luthier's knowledge of all things strummed, and maintains the innate ability to conceptualize an instrument essential to providing the right color to a track in need of a defining detail. Whether producing promising new recording artists like the band Dawes, or collaborating with renowned artists, such as Jackosn Browne, Erykah Badu and Elvis Costello."
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit by jonathanwilson
Marny2007
'These Days' Jackson Browne, Dawes & Jonathan Wilson
at the Borderline London 20/7/2011
