Retroactive

In richly intimate songs, David Wilcox creates audio tapestries that blend intricate arrangements and warmly appealing tunes with the musician’s ongoing personal growth. Whether recording in a log cabin — as he did for the 1997 release Turning Point — or experimenting with unconventional guitar techniques, the introspective Wilcox has produced quality tracks for twenty years’ worth of albums filled with poetic purity. He credits his singular style — folk standards woven with scraps of jazz and pop, rootsy arrangements often flecked with remnants of his brief classical training — to the rustic influences of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, but it’s his own intense lyrical clarity that makes both his studio and his stage performances unforgettable. Wrap yourself in raw sonic silk when Wilcox plays the Little Bear Saloon this Tuesday, February 15.