The laid-back ringleader reinvents Wild Child and forges a new path with Sir Woman
Kelsey Wilson floats into the Pershing in her familiar long black dress, and immediately the private Eastside club pops with a new energy.
"I've been singing by her side for so many years, but she has this new kind of confidence and lightness on stage," notes Beggins."She feels very at home in front of a big audience now. I see that she really feeds her soul from the live music. It's powerful." Inside, every inch of wall space seems covered with posters and photos and artwork, an intentional clutter. Sitting cross-legged on the floor of her home studio, Wilson reflects on the tension between her house as both a respite and a hub of constant activity.
"I was like, 'Damn, you guys are traveling around in a ukulele band playing for teenage girls and you're on crazy drugs,'" says Wilson."The music was never gonna get to that place as long as half the band were on uppers and the other half were on downers. Zandy and I were always looking at each other like, 'This is terrible!'
"My relationship with music was about to be destroyed," she reflects."The songs that I liked the least were the ones that always did the best. I was starting to resent the [Wild Child] audience, in a way. And being around so much drug and alcohol abuse, it was just so much, and writing a song meant I was gonna have to deal with that."Wilson's solution came from the opposite extreme.
“If there was a song about speaking your truth or dealing with dishonesty, I would put it in the key of F, because that’s your throat chakra. I basically was trying to turn pop music into medicine, but without anybody knowing.” EP introduced Wilson's new sound with the exuberant soul blast of"Highroad," shifty beats and basslines of"Making Love," and slick anthemic statement of the title track.
Wilson likewise sees Sir Woman as a platform for building community as much as a band. Her role is less as mother these days than as ringleader and orchestrator. She's determined to use her success to open doors for others, like insisting on her bandmates as opening acts.
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