Tune of the Week: Wesley Willis

In the late 90s Wesley Willis was a fixture in the Chicago music scene. On any given night you could find him at any number of venues checking out shows or in any of the numerous dive bars in Wicker Park or Bucktown. By day Wesley would write songs about his experiences, shows he had seen, altercations, businesses he past by while extensively utilizing the CTA’s buses and trains. He would draw landscapes featuring the transportation system and sell them to people at shows. He take a consumer keyboard into Airwave Studios in the suburbs and record his songs for inclusion on CDs he would also sell. Every Wesley song is basically the same with minor variations. Here is an ode to the late, great MC Eazy-E. Wesley definitely shows the all-incompassing power of music to move people of all kinds of mental conditions. Long live Wesley Willis! Scream Dracula Scream!