Will Wood

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Will Wood
Will Wood playing the keyboard
Will Wood performing live in 2018 (Roxy and Duke's Roadhouse, Dunellen, NJ)
Background information
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, filmmaker, artist, comedian
Instruments
Years active2011–2023 (on indefinite hiatus)
LabelsSay-10
Members
  • Will Wood
  • Mike Bottiglieri
  • Matt Berger
  • Vater Boris
  • Mario Conte
  • Rob Schaefer
Past member(s)Dan Chetnik
  • James Horvath
  • Ben Scardo
  • Thomas Finch
  • David Higdon
  • Matt Olson
  • Jonathon Maisto
Websitewww.willwood.net

Will Wood is an American musician from New Jersey. When in a studio or performing live with a band, he is usually accompanied by "the Tapeworms", which includes Mike Bottiglieri on guitar, Matt Berger on saxophone, Mario Conte on drums, and Vater Boris on bass. Before forming "Will Wood and the Tapeworms", he was performing with other bands, such as Jamface, Strange Thick, A Verbal Equinox and The Stereosexuals. He also performs by himself. His live shows include a mix of music, talking, and comedy.

Style[change | change source]

Wood's style of piano often changes from one song to the next, drawing from folk, pop, jazz, rock and roll, latin music, and klezmer, which is the traditional music of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.

Body of Work[change | change source]

Wood has released 5 albums since 2015, Everything is a Lot (2015), Self-ish (2016), The Normal Album (2020) and In Case I Make It (2022), and a live album In Case I Die (2023). He has also written music for the podcast, Camp Here and There.

He also directed the "The Real Will Wood", a part mockumentary, part documentary [1] film promoting his live tour, aswell as the documentary following the stages of production for "The Normal Album", called "What Did I Do? (The Making of the Normal Album)"[2]

Will also takes part in a comedy podcast called "Life in the World to Come".

Discography[change | change source]

Studio Albums[change | change source]

  • Everything is a Lot (2015)
  • Self-ish (2016)
  • The Normal Album (2020)
  • In Case I Make It (2022)
  • In Case I Die (Live) (2023)

Soundtrack Albums[change | change source]

  • The Real Will Wood (Music from the Award-Winning Concert Film) (2020)
  • Camp Here and There (Original Series Soundtrack) (2021)
  • Camp Here and There Soundtrackː Campfire Songs Edition (2022)

References[change | change source]

  1. "Watch The Real Will Wood | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  2. Wood, Will (2021-04-03), What Did I Do? (The Making of the Normal Album) (Documentary), Matt Berger, Vater Boris, Mike Bottiglieri, Say 10 Records, retrieved 2024-04-02