Trading Songs and Talkin’ About Song Craft every Monday Night. Let’s trade songs & talk music. Join me every Monday night on the music channel at YouNow.com. I’m hosting “Let’s Spend The Night Together”, a live, interractive web broadcast where everyone gets to talk and perform. To watch, you only need a browser. Broadcasting requires [...]

Pre-recorded live performance to air in April 2012 on PBS affiliate. Big thanks to Twin Cities Public Television and “MN Originals” for shooting the WW3′s in-studio performance last week. The crew worked long past quitting time, perfectly choreographing those cameras. The episode will air in spring 2012. We took what was probably 5-7 takes of each [...]

Good friend Wins Design Competition. Good friend Paul Q. Davis, and his firm DRDS, have won the design competition for South Korea’s Department of Land and Housing. Paul’s work is always breathtaking. He and his firm have been selected out of 9 teams competing for a new US320 million corporate headquarters. The 65,000sm program consists [...]

John Berry Designs Our Trippy New Tee. New Willie Wisely Trio t-shirts arrived today! Hand drawn by one of my favorite conceptualists/artists John Berry. “I am here” is a lyric from the song ‘National Council of Jewish Womens Thrift Store’, a song I wrote with Andy Dick from the new WW3 album “True“.

Wisely Collaborator Lands Oscar Nominated Actress. Wonderful news! An exclusive in the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday that director/writer Brent Roske booked Oscar nominee/Golden Globe winner Sally Kirkland to star in his next feature Alice Stands Up. Production begins in March on the $1m film, which Roske wrote specifically for the actress after directing her in [...]

Coffee And Tea Festival 2012, Preview in NYC. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Starfish Junction Productions, producer of the Coffee and Tea Festival NYC, announced that the upcoming 7th annual Coffee And Tea Festival (being held in New York City on February 25 & 26, 2012) will host a special “robust” staged reading of COFFEE THE MUSICAL, [...]

Willie Wisely Trio Performs New Songs on Acclaimed Public TV Show. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The newly regrouped Willie Wisely Trio, as part of the release of their first album in 18 years, is set to pre-record their live performance on Twin Cities Public Television’s acclaimed MN Original show. All four original members of the WW3, [...]

Remembering George Harrison. by Mike Dow. For this Maine Edge tribute to George Harrison on the 10th anniversary of his passing, I reached out to a variety of people who have been impacted by him in some way. Some are fans, some are musicians and songwriters and some were among his friends and peers. I [...]

Now Hear This. by Dan Boles. By most measures, Boston-based songwriter Audrey Ryan is a successful musician. She’s toured nationally and internationally. She’s recorded a handful of critically acclaimed albums and was signed to a European label, Folkwit Records. Since leaving Burlington a decade ago — the University of Vermont grad is responsible for painting [...]

Willie Wisely Ambitiously Fosters His Creativity to Find His Dreams. by Monica Millsap Rasmussen. Willie Wisely as a local musician may bring out emotionally charged reactions. “Willie was opinionated and often times just said it the way he felt it and, of course, other musicians didn’t like the criticism.” Steve McClellan, former general manager of [...]