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Allen Willner

Scream Dream Baby!!!!

About Me

Yes that's right...finally after years of other projects and things i'm Now releasing my first self titled CD of 14 songs independently produced and recorded. The cool thing is i've a backload of songs i've yet to record so there should be lots more soon....... I can also be heard on The Book of Knots new release "Traineater" with Vocals on "The Ballad of John Henry" released on Anti Records April 2007 (check this record out its got some great tracks by various vocalists including T. Waits).... I was Born of Queens. NY now in San Francisco, Ca... I've spent the last many years as a director/designer for such theater groups as inkBoat, So.Go.No., 5th Floor, Richard Schechner's East Coast Artists and many others in NYC and San Francisco... I worked with the The Great Faun Fables on their 2002 underground musical "The Transit Rider" as Director/Designer ....I've been honored to be working on the road as lighting designer since 2003 for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and also more recently with Carla Kihlstedt's 2 Foot Yard...I'll be designing Carla's opcoming show "Necessary Monsters" at The Chicago Museum of Modern Art in Feb 2008.......also have lit shows for the likes of the Billy Nayer Show, the Dresden Dolls and the Secret Chiefs 3.....Oh and thanks for listenin' we appreciate any and all of yur comments and think your just swell for readin' this far...

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Member Since: 6/13/2006
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Influences: Bucky Wunderlick, The Billy Nayer Show, Tom Waits, Don Delillo, Rube Waddell, Old Time Relijun, Patti Smith, Robert Wilson, Italo Calvino, X, Laurie Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithful, Faun Fables, Reverend Horton Heat, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, PJ Harvey, Paul Auster, Idiot Flesh, Brian Setzer, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Michelle Shocked, The Beatles, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Woodie Guthrie, Ledbelly.........
Record Label: Apple Eye
Type of Label: Indie