Streetwisemen

Check out our videos, they say it all. This band needs to be seen to be truly understood. I recommend it for a laugh. The STREETWISEMEN is an order of righteous rock musicians surrounding blind and homeless STREETWISE vendor and front man, William Plowman: a.k.a. "Wicked Willy Yonkers". The music is a refreshing return to fun fast rock and roll with an artsy twist. It is riff and solo heavy and the message is clearly parallel to the experiences and challenges of Will's life. Born with cataracts, Will's lenses were taken out at birth, which was the start of a long and frustrating road for him. It was one that eventually left him in his adult life jobless, and eventually homeless. Until he met the STREETWISEMEN, friends and local musicians from various groups, who banned together to give Will a voice. Will Plowman is a leprechaun of a man, standing about 5'6" with a head of wild red hair and beard. The band, always in costume, has a dynamic sound that takes elements from great classic hard rock acts and energizes them to a fiery tempo as a bed for the words of Will. Being legally blind for most of his life, Will wasn’t much for T.V. The radio was his escape, and through the years, he has become something just a little short of a rock and roll fact book. In a time when society was turning its back on Will and his life was looking like it was coming to a grim ending, rock and roll took him in. Now, armed with some of Chicago’s finest undiscovered rockers, “Wicked Willy Yonkers” is on a mission to reclaim his life and put his hat in the ring for rock stardom because, “ROCK AND ROLL, WILL SAVE OUR SOULS! ! !”