Bo
Wilson is a rock guitarist, singer and
songwriter,
hailing from the beautiful red rocks of Northern Arizona, with a career
that expands over 40 years in the music industry. Bo began his career
in the Nashville country music scene in the early 1970s, rubbing
shoulders with
rock & country pioneers. As a guitarist and songwriter, Bo was
able to parlay his talent, as a session musician and writer for many
popular outlaw country and rock acts. Sharing the studio with the likes
of Chris Gantry,KristopherKristoffersonCarl Perkins and Lee Clayton, to playing guitar
with an up and coming Waylon Jennings.
Bo eventually ran into Nashville music industry rep Niki Shrode, who led to a deal with Bob Beckham and Chip Young of Mega Records. Bo sat in on sessions
with legendary artists such as the Glazier
Brothers to Zack
Van Arsdale,
at the legendary Columbia Studios.
Bo also signed a deal with Cedarwood Publishing Co,
which allowed him to write with some of Nashville's famed artists. Bo with guitar in hand, toured the
U.S. from Nashville and Memphis to the Hawaiian Islands with the Bo Wilson Band, which eventually led
him back to sweet home Arizona. Bo was born and raised in the Phoenix
area, and at age 18 made his musical debut on popular local TV show Wallace and Ladmo.... where he was
bit with the bug to entertain. Bo ran into a young Alice Cooper and his group the Spiders during that performance...
from there he was ready to rock!
Kristofferson once told Bo
"it sounds like you sing with mirrors" - a remark which would inspire
him after his tenure in Nashville. Touring became the norm for Bo over
the years before he returned to Arizona, where he eventually began
writing again. With the excitement of many live shows under his belt,
as well as many road stories, Bo began to write songs for his 2007
demo release Bo Wilson & UR2.
His return to the studio after so many year was an incredible
experience, which produced many new tracks such as contemporary hit Seattle, rock
and blues inspired The
Hardest Thing.
Joining Bo, are veteran rockers, like former Alice Cooper
drummer Clay Harper.
Bo's first novelty single in 2008 received radio airplay on Fox Sports Radio, and radio stations
across the U.S.
with "All
The Good Beer Is
Gone."
In a recent
feature article and review, the Verde
Valley Newspapers stated Bo's
new release as "It's that everyman quality Wilson hopes to get across
in his new CD... it's a particular song or style, or a guitar riff,
that will turn your head." Bo's opinion on his "everyman" status is
unique - "it's another way of saying that on a spiritual level, we're
all the same guy walking around... in the end, we're all spirit."
In 2009 Bo signed a record deal with Tom
Kat Records, which will release his first solo album The Bo Wilson Incident.,
which features singles such as Hardest Thing, Low Down Blues
and Mingus Winds.
DSN Music is proud
to welcome the return of this incredible veteran guitarist, singer, and
songwriter of the southwest!
