Biography
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AGENT: BOB WILSON
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“This is deeply satisfying reggae for aware, intelligent grown-ups, and it’s a marvel from start to finish” TED BOOTHROYD – THE BEAT
“An epic novel set to music…setting a new standard for reggae music in Canada and perhaps, anywhere else” - THE LIVE MUSIC REPORT
“You would have to separate him from so many of his contemporaries…treating listeners to smart, literate songs” - ERROL NAZARETH – THE TORONTO SUN
“Excellent two-CD set…inventive arrangements on thoughtful, genre-stretching songs about human conflict” - NICHOLAS JENNINGS – INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT
“Wilson has a talent for writing intelligent, lyrical songs...can just as easily be read as poetry” - MICHAEL HUNTER – FIDDLESTIX
“Taking reggae to another level!” - DERMOTT HUSSEY – MUSICOLOGIST/CO-AUTHOR BOB MARLEY: REGGAE KING OF THE WORLD
Legenday UK fiddler, Dave Swarbrick teams with Jason Wislon on a full-length new album A major player in the British folk music renaissance of the 1960s, Dave Swarbrick has recorded and performed with some of the genre's true pioneers, including Ewan MacColl, Martin Carthy and the Ian Campbell Folk Singers. Swarbrick is perhaps best known for his contribution as fiddler of folk-rock legends Fairport Convention, whose album, Liege and Leif is still considered by many to be "the most important folk album of all-time". Swarb and Wilson have embarked on recording a full-length album entitled The Lion Rampant to be released by spring, 2010.
Jason Wilson has been pegged by the Canadian media as a "reggae-visionary" and the "future of reggae". Nominated for a Juno Award for Best Reggae Recording, Wilson has recorded and performed with some of the world's biggest reggae acts including: UB40, Sly and Robbie, Brinsley Forde, Jackie Mittoo, Ernest Ranglin and many more.
Wilson made a profound impact on Canada's reggae scene over the past fifteen years with his band Tabarruk. They performed over 2,000 shows around the globe since the band's inception.
Never one to be stylistically tied down, Wilson has also worked extensively outside the reggae world too, including collaborations with Alanis Morissette, Percy Sledge, Ron Sexsmith, David Francey, Pee Wee Ellis, the Mighty Sparrow to name just a few.
Still, it is within the reggae genre that Wilson is best known. Jason was also the on-stage musical director for the award-winning project Jamaica to Toronto (NOW Magazine Album of the Year, 2006), and is currently co-leader of the popular Marley/Dylan tribute act The Two Bobs.
His new latest CD, The Peacemaker's Chauffeur features a diverse assortment of guests such as Brinsley Forde (from Aswad), Jay Douglas, Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention), Pee Wee Ellis (James Brown, Van Morrison), David Francey, Ron Sexsmith and Ernest Ranglin, amost many others.