Well, you probably already know that Wilson the Rocker play the kind of music that just begs for you to sing along.  The kind to which you find yourself making dramatic Rock ‘n' Roll hand gestures at the stop light, shouting along with the chorus. You know, pop music as it was meant to be: catchy, fun, and meaningful. Ah, but do know the story of how these four gentlemen came together to perform these rocking pop songs? Hmm, I thought not. Here friend, sit down, let me tell you their quasi-mysterious and mildly magical tale:

Wilson the Rocker began with the bedroom recordings of Evan Hill. They weren't much, just some exercises in various pop stylings: folk songs, synthpop, lullabies, songs about Sears, Roebuck & Company sung by a men's chorus. You know, that kind of thing. It was all well and good, but Evan wasn't fully satisfied with his artistic endeavors. In short, he wanted to rock!

"You know," Evan mused to himself one day as he sat comfortably on his front porch, unaware anyone was listening to him, "I should record an album. It should be called Teenage Messiah and thematically focused on the transition from teenager to adult. Yes, a coming-of-age album of sorts. And it should have catchy, rocking pop songs with lots of synthesizers! And drama. Yes, definitely a sense of drama should be instilled within the songs!" Then Evan began muttering to himself indistinguishably, thrumming his fingertips together and delving deeper into thought. He was quite a sight.

Six months later, Evan had his album, but alas, no way of fully realizing the music in a live setting. As Evan thought to himself (for he had been advised that speaking aloud to oneself in a public setting is not always prudent), "I need a band!" who should come sauntering up but one Addison Brown. "I can play drums!" Addison proclaimed proudly, "And I can get you a band." Indeed he could, on both accounts. For it was not long before bassist Shayne Heather joined the fold, lending his rock-solid timing and RnB influence to the music. Shayne was soon followed by keyboard playing JonPaul Hess, who came with a mysterious glint in his eyes, which to someone trained to recognize such things could only be the glint of a man who enjoys creating complex MIDI routing schemes and assembling keytars with duct tape in the wee hours of the morning. Yes, indeed, he was the right man for the job.

The four men who came make up Wilson the Rocker soon locked themselves in a basement (quite by accident, actually) and began feverishly refining their performances of the songs from Teenage Messiah for maximum impact (or what they referred to as, “Raditidude”). It was not long until they managed to find a way out of the basement (with the help of a trusty pickax) and into the music venues of Asheville and the Southeast (without the help of the pickax, thank goodness). Somewhere along the way Evan learned how to hop on one leg while playing guitar, JonPaul learned how to make his torso disappear, the band learned some new songs, and audiences learned to expect an outlandish, energetic, and heartfelt live show from Wilson the Rocker.

There, friend. Now you know the story of how Wilson the Rocker came to be. I can see how very delighted you are. Oh, how even more delighted you'll be once you see them for yourself!