Laurel Canyon-based Jonathan Wilson is an achiever, be it at making highly sought after electric guitars (which he did for some years), touring with Roger Waters, producing work for the likes of Roy Harper and Father John Misty (among many others) or making his own broad, experimental and often thrilling records. His latest, Eat The Worm, is partly a love letter to 1960s jazz, partly a beatnik poem about the decline of modern culture. Beguiling, baffling, beautiful, it is a cryptic mescaline dream of an album.
“It was at some point during the pandemic that I started some new songs,” Jonathan explains. “I had an album [] that came out on 6 March 2020, which was a bit of a joke because it was when it all [the pandemic] started. And then during that period I
