Willard Grant Conspiracy

Willard Grant Conspiracy is the musical collective that surrounds songwriter Robert Fisher. With their last five records,the band has quietly gone about putting together one of the most impressive catalogs in the alt.country / post punk-folk rock genres. The records have been met with critical acclaim and have been included in many critics’ best-of lists.
The band, formed in 1995, has a loose configuration that allows its members to be involved as they are available, in order to support all of their musical and life interests. But make no mistake – this is ensemble playing and a real band, no matter how many participants are present. Currently based in the California desert where Robert lives, musicians from Massachusetts, Arizona, New York, London, Holland, and Japan are all part of the whole.
A live show may be as diverse as Robert playing solo or having as many as 14 members, or any number in between, on stage at one time. The sound can be as quiet and warm as 3am on a winter's morning before the last embers in the fireplace or as soulful and boisterous as a Sunday Morning Gospel service. It's the kind of music that seems to have been here forever; brought down out of the ether and channelled through the musicians onstage pure and unadulterated. It's music that has been described as causing the spirit to soar and to make the knees go weak. It's the music of real life from real people.
The new album “Paper Covers Stone” features original members of WGC; Robert Fisher, Sean O'Brien, David Michael Curry (Thalia Zedek, Empty House Cooperative) were joined by Steve Wynn (Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three) and engineer/producer/musician Pete Weiss and will be released in the fall of 2009.

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