New Studio demo added here and on Myspace.com!
Hot off the presses, the work in progress demo for "The One Who Got Away" is now up on Wil's Myspace.com page. You can also listen by clicking here!

Headed Into The Studio
Wil is headed into the studio in LA for a week's worth of preproduction work with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Ima Robot, Holly Palmer) starting November 13th. Stay tuned for new song demo postings and more news from studioland!

New Interview
Read Wil's recent online interview with melodic.net here

Live on 91.7 FM!
Wil is appearing live on the air in Milwaukee on Tuesday, August 15th at 8 PM local time (9 PM EST). Milwaukee folks can tune in to 91.7 FM for WMSE's "Local/Live" program where Wil will be performing five or six songs and answering a few questions. Anyone with a web connection can stream the show at www.wmse.org. Thanks for listening! 

Download 'Already There'
For a limited time, you can download the track "Already There" on Wil's Myspace page. This track, co-written with long time friend and collaborator Paul Trudeau, has been featured in numerous hit TV shows, from ER to Third Watch to Boston Legal. Get the free track before it's gone... 

New Show Date
Another show date has just been added for September's mini tour. You can catch Wil at Triangle Billiards in High Point, NC.
Thursday, September 21
Triangle Billiards
1310 N Main St, High Point, NC 27262
(336) 885-5229
Wil on at 10 PM. $5 cover.

New Video!
From the artist's mouth: "I posted a video up on my myspace.com page of the song "Foolish" from my show this past Friday night. I have very short hair in honor of the hottest week, like, ever. It will grow back (I'm told). Hope you like the video, particularly those of you excellent people who live too far away from wherever I've been at any given time to see me play live. This one's for you, gang. Love, Wil"

Mercy Records Is Your Friend & Mine - June 29, 2006
Dear Friends,
Some of you may know I recently signed a deal with Mercy Records, Sony's hottest new indie label. I have spent years in the music business searching for the kind of team I've found at Mercy. The label is built around helping each artist fulfill his or her creative vision. How many times does THAT happen in the real world? So, if you haven't already, please make a friends request for Mercy Records (just click on the link below). If you are a musician, these folks are the very best kind of people to know in the business. If you're a music fan, please check out all the other excellent artists on the label. Most of them are good friends of mine and incredible people as well as exceptional artists. Your support really does make all the difference. Thanks for spreading the love! Cheers, Wil

Human Rights Campaign - June 27, 2006
I was lucky enough recently to contribute musically to a public service campaign. After the atrocities of World War II, the nations of the world got together to ratify an international declaration of human rights, 30 in all, which were then promptly forgotten. Youth for Human Rights Internationalis raising awareness of these basic freedoms and building grassroots support to pressure governments to finally adopt moral, ethical and legal codes they've already agreed to but have failed to enforce. In an age where it's hard to find the "good guys" in any government, including our own, I think organizations that focus on global problems in an inclusive way are more important than ever. I've posted one of the ads on my MySpace page (www.myspace.com/wilseabrook). All 30 ads are moving and thought provoking. I encourage everyone to find out more by visiting www.youthforhumanrights.org. Every problem has a solution. The first step is making people aware of the problem... - Cheers, Wil
(When the PSA I contributed music for is available, it will be posted to the site; for now, check out "Freedom of Thought.")

New Song/Lyrics - June 3, 2006
I suppose it's true that nothing in life that's worth having is easy. A romantic relationship that lasts and grows takes work, and I'm finding when I try to write love songs that I don't really want to write about the infatuation stage so much. I'd rather write about what it's like a few months or years down the line. Because that's really the stuff of life, isn't it? How is it that we so fixate on that first stage and leave nothing in our cultural dialogue for the other 99 percent? This song is my attempt at discussing what it's like to really commit to someone when it means that you can no longer be selfish all the time, that you can no longer be with thirty other women even though every beer commercial in the universe tells you you aren't a man unless you have at least two (how many guys do YOU know who can handle even one woman very well??). I've talked a bit recently about MySpace and what I think we're all doing here. I think it's funny that the ads that pop up on every other page (maybe there's one in the margin right now!) are for "sexy singles" dating services or virtual brothels or whatever else. To me it seems that looking for love means looking no further than a touched up photo and a two minute profile. That might be chemistry, hell that might be the beginning of a romance for the ages, but that ain't love. I guess I wrote this because I feel a little cheated. Like all the stuff swirling around out there in pop culture land makes it harder for people to really have stable, healthy relationships. Why commit to just one person when there are clearly billions of incredibly attractive singles looking to date YOU right NOW as soon as you fill out this questionnaire and give US your credit card number?! I mean, I joke about the beer commercials but if I hadn't seen 8 zillion of them (along with another 8 zillion Victoria's Secret ads) would it be a little bit easier to take a three dimensional look at every woman I come into contact with? I think it might be. So you can't outlaw beer commercials (Prohibition didn't go so well) but you can at least speak some truth, right? Here goes nothing...

All I Can Say
For too long I have seen paths not taken
and those paths stayed with me
I felt stronger between the choice I'm making
and all I've left unseen
You feel like you're tied down by voices that
keep your feet on the ground
All I can say to you
Is I don't wanna stay here
don't wanna learn to live with my fear
All this I leave to you
I'm trying hard to be clear
I'm trying hard to give you myself, my dear
I guess most of my life I thought I was
The kind of guy
Who would just get it right, so sensible in love
but as time has gone by
I feel like I'm tied down by voices that
keep my feet on the ground
All I can say to you...
I thought it such a shame
With no one else to blame
But now I stake my claim
To what will happen, now I've let you in
All I can say to you...

The Truth Is, Life Is Good - May 5, 2006
I received an email this week from a friend who travels quite a bit as a part of his business (check out www.ancientresource.com to see what cool stuff he does for a living). He is currently in the Middle East, sending missives from the road. What he wrote rang so true to me that I wanted to share it with others. Every time I strip virtually naked at an airport security checkpoint I think about what a few thousand crazy people have done to the vast majority who are well intentioned, ethical, and generally trying to do the right thing. I have been lucky enough to travel the world many times over and I can tell you that this planet holds infinitely more beauty and life than it does danger, fear, and destruction. Without further ado, my friend Gabriel:
"Hi again --
It's the middle of the night over here but something's been bothering me. I heard a few days ago that Osama Bin Laden had another `call to arms' for the Muslim nations to arm up against the USA. I was, of course, in a predominantly Islamic country at the time so I rode it out and advised the both of us to lay low until we left the country. But now we're out and this has still been burning at me.
There is nothing to be scared of.
From everywhere I've been and everything I've seen, I have never been so sure of anything in my life. It is far scarier and far more dangerous to take a stroll through East Los Angeles or even East Palo Alto than to walk the streets of Cairo, Amman, Istanbul, or nearly anywhere else (Baghdad is an exception). (Keep in mind: I am just about 7 hours from Baghdad at this moment. I firmly hold my point).
We as people are trained to fear what we do not know or understand. Terrorism, for example. Terrorists efficiently execute their goals because, by nature, they inflict terror. When terror gets the best of people and that terror turns to panic, these very uneducated, very undeserving, very few, gain the complete attention of everyone, nearly everywhere. This should not be so. There are far too many of us to be affected in this way. Life is far too short. And life is fleeting enough as it is without the influence of far undeserving fear-inflictors.
And terror has existed in our country, in our towns, for quite some time. The `War on Terror' never really addressed any of the true terror groups threatening true Americans even on our home soil (Take the Klu Klux Klan. If this is not a terror group, I don't know what is).
But we are Americans. And we, by nature of being Americans, are a resilient people. We've been threatened by terrifying entities since the beginning. Think early: The Queen. Bears. The Sioux, the mighty Mississippi, earthquakes, and the Jesse James gang. The Mexican Revolution and The Alamo. Syphillus and The Plague. The War for Independence and countless attempts on our leaders' lives (failed assassinations include Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronny Reagan). I don't know about you, but I feel threatened by sharks, but that doesn't keep me from the seashore. We've been threatened, and attacked by the Japanese and even after Pearl Harbor our shores were bombarded by bomb-carrying paper balloons. We've been threatened by everyone every lunatic, every organized group, every nation that has ever felt threatened by us. And somehow we've prevailed. Because we are not scared. We are not scared. I want to hear you, out loud: WE ARE NOT SCARED. And don't let them think even for a second that we are terrified.
Travel to Egypt. And PLEASEtravel to Jordan. These places will amaze and strengthen you. You are safe there. Even if violence erupts, your chances of seeing that violence are far rarer than if you had stayed `safe' here in L.A.
I guess that's all for now. Just, please, travel. And travel often.
Gabriel"

New Beginnings - April 4, 2006
Spring is in the air. I know this because I'm not in LA (where it's a sort of a perpetual state of fake spring) for the first time in quite awhile. I'm in the midwest until November, when I start recording my new album. All the songs in my player currently are contenders for the new CD. Your feedback is much appreciate if you have some favorites. I always like hearing from people, regardless... I am more excited about this new album than I've ever been about anything in my career, and that's saying something. I'm an enthusiastic kind of guy... I'll have more details next month about who's producing, what the label is, etc. It's all good news, I promise! In the meantime, keep listening, keep telling me what you like (and, if you must, what you don't!) and tell some friends about me, will you? I can't tell you how good that makes me feel. Cheers and love, Wil