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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Standup Tim Wilson back in town
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former long-time Atlanta resident Tim Wilson came to the Punchline over the weekend. He now has a house in Nashville and a pad in Louisville, Ky. Buzz caught up with him after his Friday night late show.
Wilson, a sharp-tongued standup comic and music satirist who lived in Atlanta for decades until about 18 months ago, said he is geographically closer to his primary promotional tools: syndicated radio hosts John Boy & Billy in Charlotte and Bob & Tom in Indianapolis, both of whom failed miserably when they aired in Atlanta. Nobody in metro Atlanta plays his satirical songs, though he gets occasional support from Moby, who now is on stations circling metro Atlanta.
“I’m out of style in Atlanta,” said Wilson, who is 46, balder and grayer than he was when the AJC profiled him in 2002 but more at ease now that he’s happily married. “And radio doesn’t do anything to help.”
Wilson recently got partial songwriting credit for a top 10 Toby Keith hit called “High Maintenance Woman.” The Keith song features the lyrics “It’s just a high maintenance woman/Don’t want no maintenance man.” Keith wrote the song but here’s the story he tells on his Web site:
I got to the studio and played it for the session guys and they said, “Aw, man. There’s a comedian named Tim Wilson who’s got a skit about that and has a little ditty song that’s kind of the same thing.”… Tim’s a friend of mine, so I called him and told him about my song and what the session musicians had told me about his. I said I wouldn’t even record mine without his blessing, which he gave. And just because I don’t want anyone to ever think I copped his song, we threw him a small share of the writing and put their names on it.
Wilson, who has a strong Southern accent and admires Don Nickles, said it was 10%, which he split with Danny Simpson, his frequent co-writer. He said Keith pockets about 4 cents per song he wrote per CD so Wilson and Simpson share .4 of a penny per CD. Wilson gets one-fifth of a penny. So far, Keith’s CD has sold about 450,000 copies. So Wilson has made just under $1,000. Not bad considering Wilson had nothing to do with the song, but Toby was courteous enough to give him some credit for the joke.
He has a recent CD “But I Could Be Wrong,”, which Wilson said isn’t doing too badly in sales. But the DVD “Tim Wilson: Live in Atlanta” “is sucking,” he said. The DVDl, released in June, was shot 18 months ago at the Punchline. As of this writing, it’s ranked, 42,008 on Amazon.com among DVDs. His CD is ranked 9,316 in the music category.
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