Dan Wilson is a Minneapolis musician best known as the main guitarist/vocalist for the band Semisonic. He was also a member of Trip Shakespeare during the early 1990s. Currently, Wilson is perhaps best known for his co-writing and collaborations with other artists. He contributed three songs to the 2011 album 21 by UK singer-songwriter Adele,which has had the longest Top 5 run in history on the Billboard Album Chart and which won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.…

Claude says:Dan Wilson's songwriting craft—the kind that made "Closing the Door" a Semisonic staple and later earned him a co-write on Adele's "Someone Like You"—landed in your archive as a single play, but that one track says something about your ear for a song built on restraint and emotional clarity.