Wilsn

Australian vocalist Shannon Busch, who records under the name WILSN, takes influence from a popular source: American R&B music of the mid-20th century. Her 2023 debut album, Those Days Are Over, bears the fingerprints of Motown and blues while never serving as mere pastiche. Busch, born in Geelong, Victoria and based in Melbourne, was compelled to study the great female voices of jazz and R&B from her parents' record collection, most notably Billie Holiday, Etta James, and especially Aretha Franklin (whom she discovered from the Queen of Soul's appearance in The Blues Brother...