Songwriter Dan Wilson "Re-covers" His Songs Written With/For Others

Soundcheck | Oct 2, 2017

You probably know songwriter, producer and arranger Dan Wilson. He’s the songwriter who wrote massive hits with folks like Adele (“Someone Like You”) and The Dixie Chicks (“Not Ready to Make Nice”), and for his own band, Semisonic (“Closing Time.”) Recently, the in-demand songwriter reclaimed these songs, rearranging them for his voice, his guitar – so that one could imagine performing them in the woods or at a lake (in perhaps Minnesota, where he is from), acoustically. Dan Wilson joins us live to play some of these “re-covered” songs.

Here’s his version of “Someone Like You” (arrangement by Jacob Slichter) as a collaboration with Kronos Quartet:

  

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