therealwillwood

I/Me/Myself @ Valley Bar, Phoenix AZ 9.9.22

Final Livestream Q&A in 2024!

Hey there folks!

In case you haven't heard, I'm out of videos so I'm pausing billing here starting January 1st so that y'all don't get charged while I put together a new library of content for ya! You don't have to do anything - annual plans will be extended by the amount I'm paused, merch deliveries will be unaffected, and I'll let you know before I re-start billing. During that time you'll still have access to previous posts, but I won't be active here or publishing anything new, so this Saturday, 12/21 @ 6pm EST is going to be my la...

Update: Don't Touch that Dial!

Hello everyone, hope you're doing well! I'm slowly but surely recovering from the beautiful horror that is touring, and am looking forward to spending 2025 focusing on renewal and creativity. The next couple months, however, I need to take a step back and do some behind-the-scenes tinkering. This means updating how my business operates, locking in what my plans are for touring, and of course updating this Patreon account.

After this month, we are officially out of live videos from 2022. However, as you know, I just played like 35 shows...

Skeleton Appreciation Day @ World Café Live - Philadelphia PA, 8.26.22

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The Main Character @ The Vermont Hollywood, Los Angeles CA 9.10.22

Livestream pushed back an hour!

Sorry folks, getting to the hotel tonight is taking a bit longer than expected! It'll be 9:30pm CST. Sorry for the delay folks!

Cicada Days @ Nectar Lounge, Seattle WA 9.18.22

INSTRUMENTAL: WBTTA 2024 Edit

November Q&A Livestream

Hey there folks,

As most of you know, I had to miss this month's livestream due to a bunch of factors piling on top of me at once. The fact that last month's was a total mess due to me being mid-drive in an RV with no real wi-fi while it was happening makes me doubly determined to make up for the missing one and then some.

So this month's livestream will be 90 minutes instead of the usual hour, and it will be on Monday, 11/25 at 8:30pm CST (that's central time, 9:30pm for Eastern, as I normally schedule, but I'll be in Louisiana ...

Blog #16: Probably my last tour diary entry

As you've probably heard, I've cancelled tonight's show in San Diego for health reasons. I'm sorry if you had tickets and were looking forward to the show, you will be refunded soon. The illness my crew and I have been battling since arriving on the west coast has finally gotten on top of me enough where I'm running a fever and simply cannot perform. This tour has been too dense, I've had no time to rest, and doing a two-hour show that involves so much physicality every night is not how you recover from sickness. I won't be touring so hard e...

White Noise @ Hawthorne Theater, Portland OR, 9.16

THIS MONTH'S LIVE AUDIO!

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Attached to this post is a couple of .WAV files of songs at live performances, exclusively for Tier 4 & 5 members! Hope you enjoy the tracks! You folks will be entitled to 2-3 tracks like these every month, so stay tuned for more videos, audio, discounts, and more! Thanks so much for your continued support!

Much love,

-ww

Blog #15: Tour Diary 11.14.24

So that sore throat turned into something else. It's not Covid, we've tested roughly ten thousand and forty five times. We stopped at an urgent care and found it to be similar in vibration to the basement of a building in The Last of Us; more upside-down Macintosh '95s on Amazon Essentials rolling tables crammed into dark crannies than tongue depressors. Maybe the reason the illness went from a throat full of stalactites to a snoot full of goop to a Mojave-Marlboro dry cough in such quick succession is because I inhaled the cordyceps/black m...

LIVESTREAM RESCHEDULED :( SORRY!

Hey everyone, super sorry to say I'm going to have to cancel tonight's Q&A.

Something is going on with my throat that is frightfully painful, and I can't bear to speak right now. I'm not sure what it is - it's not Covid, don't worry - but it's unlikely to just be environmental irritants or vocal strain. We're stopping at an urgent care shortly to try and solve the issue ASAP cause if it's strep we clear it up right away.

Fingers crossed y'all. Sorry for not being able to make it. Don't worry, there'll st...

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Blog #14: Tour Diary 11.10.24

Howdy folks, hope y'all have been well. I know it's only been five days since my last tour diary, but it feels like it's been weeks for me. One airplane flight will often screw up my whole system for days, sometimes weeks. I'm awful frightened by flying, so I need to pill myself to the gills just to muscle through. My only method of dodging the "mean reds" six miles above the planet is the psychiatric equivalent of a lights-out gun-butt to the back of the head: The Valium Nerve Pinch. Even after hopefully drifting back into grateful consciou...

November Livestream Q&A!

Hey there folks - this month's livestream Q&A is going to be on MONDAY instead of SUNDAY due to my touring schedule - sorry for any inconvenience!

I'll be going live at 6pm EST via the link above on Monday, 11/11/24!

Thanks as always for the support - see you then and there!

Vampire Reference in a Minor Key @ Ace of Cups, Columbus OH 9.18.22

Blog #13: Halloween Weekend

I told you all that the Halloween party shows would be different!

For those of you who aren't in the know yet, the big surprise was that I would be playing with a band for the first time since right before the pandemic - making it just under five years since our last public performance, and even longer since our last big headliner. I want to thank everyone who came out for making it such a meaningful experience and such a thrilling reunion. I felt five years younger, felt closer to old friends than I have in a while, and felt a really...

Memento Mori @ City Winery, Atlanta GA 8.23.22

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Becoming the Lastnames @ City Winery, Nashville TN

INSTRUMENTAL: Outliars 2024 Edit

Blog #12: Tour Diary, despite what I said

I want to share some thoughts about last night, but I'm not sure how. I'm not even sure if I can. I'm starting to suspect that letting people see what's in the sausage isn't good for hot dog PR...

I wouldn't really know what else to write about if I didn't discuss the challenges I face and the work I do, and the ways my efforts fail and succeed. I could talk about the placement of the merch table, our difficulties with City Winery's corporate operations in regards to their contract practices, priming the generator on the RV, and a mill...

Blog #11: Tour Diary 10/??/24... The blur thickens...

Okay, so.

I've thrown a couple of espresso shots (pre-packaged in the same plastic thimble creamers are) past my uvula, braced my gag reflex, chased it down with the half-splash of Red Bull left in a can I found in the RV refrigerator door, and sat down to try and catch you all up. I hope you'll forgive the half-lucid blubberings of a spiritually exhausted and brain-bogged by-definition-professional musician at the tail end of an unwisely dense run. I need a cigarette, a bong hit, a couch, and a few hours of mind-numbing passive media ...

Against the Kitchen Floor / Tomcat Disposables @ Knitting Factory, Spokane WA 9.17.22

Blog #10: Tour Diary 10.18.24... The Blur...

I believe this entry may be a bit on the short side, as the past few days have been a blur. I am struggling to remember which show was which and what happened at each one. I will try to remember some highlights, but I can't make any promises. I made a mistake not giving myself more days off. I am a fool.

I had a day off after Pittsburgh, which I considered, despite the challenges, to be one of my best shows yet.

After St. Louis was Chicago, which I'm told I said was the best show I've ever done and the most fun I've ever had on s...

THIS MONTH'S LIVE AUDIO!

Hey there Patreon members!

Attached to this post is a couple of .WAV files of songs at live performances, exclusively for Tier 4 & 5 members! Hope you enjoy the tracks! You folks will be entitled to 2-3 tracks like these every month, so stay tuned for more videos, audio, discounts, and more! Thanks so much for your continued support!

Much love,

-ww