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Larry Jon Wilson: Larry Jon Wilson

2008 release from this Nashville musician who created some classic underground albums in the '70s for Monument Records

Larry Jon Wilson, guitar

01. Shoulders

02. Losers Trilogy: If I Just Knew What to Say/Bless the Losers/Things Ain'

03. Heartland

04. Long About Now

05. Me with No You

06. Feel Alright Again

07. I Am No Dancer

08. Goodbye Eyes

09. Rocking with You

10. Throw My Hands Up

11. Whore Trilogy: Louise/Sunset Woman/Frisco Mabel Joy

12. Where From

Biography

Born on October 7, 1940, in Swainsboro, in Emmanuel County, to Louise Phillips and John Tyler Wilson,

Larry Jon Wilson was raised in Augusta, Georgia. He attended high school at Carlisle Military

Academy in Bamberg, South Carolina, before attending the University of Georgia, where he

majored in chemistry. From 1963 to 1973 he worked in Langley, South Carolina, for United

Merchants and Manufacturers as a technical consultant in fiberglass manufacturing.

"Back then I was making money - now I'm making music." L. J. Wilson

At the age of thirty, Wilson received his first guitar and taught himself to play. Four years

later, by then a husband and the father of three children, he decided to try to make his

living by making music. In the 2nd half of the 1970s he had 4 great records out on Monument:

New Beginnings, Let Me Sing My Song To You, Loose Change and Sojourner.

His compositions reflect his experiences, and many focus on his southern childhood; one writer

called them "eloquent, elegiac songs of the South." Of his first album, the critic for the

Saturday Review in New York said, "Larry Jon Wilson's New Beginnings is, to sum up, the best

thing I have heard in country, rock, pop, or you-name-it for a very long time."

Larry Jon Wilson also appeared in the movie Heartworn Highways, filmed in the studio in 1975,

recording the self-penned Ohooppee River Bottomland, a funky grooving Southern-BluesRockCountrySoul-Song.

And that was the problem when it came to the business side of Music City: A lot of talent,

a wide range of style, he couldn't be put in no drawer and he couldn't be marketed. Kind of

like Charlie Rich, if Charlie had never let himself be turned into the Countrypolitan Silver

Fox and, as some say, sold out musically for success.

"My love for different kinds of music has apparently left the music that I write and perform

with no bag to be places in." L. J. Wilson

For Larry Jon it was no hits, no success, no compromises, and so in 1980, disillusioned, he

left the music business and remained obscure, a hidden musical treasure, playing solo live

gigs whenever he wanted or when he needed the money.

Friends and contemporaries like Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newberry/Newbury, Guy Clark,

Billy Joe Shaver, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson and Tony Joe White might have urged him

to record again, but he laid back in Augusta, Georgia, doing voice-overs for tv and occasional

live gigs.

Then, at the beginning of the new millenium a couple of his 70s songs appeared on the great

samplers Country Got Soul, Volume 1 and 2, and two new recordings, Sapelo und Friday Night Fight

At Al's, on the Dan Penn produced The Country Soul Revue - Testifying.

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