Wilson Marks studied jazz in the city of New Orleans, destitution in Portland, a two hour layover in Honolulu and tacos in Austin TX. Formerly of the Sparrowmakers, his songs often feature word play, alliterative turns of phrase, and furry chords. They veer from irreverence and fancy (Ethel and the Merman, Big Box Store) to the personal (I Hope the Healing has Begun, Wheels). He writes songs of hope and longing amidst a handful of swinging tunes that sound like they sashayed in from Tin Pan Alley still wet with the rain. The cover of this release, Spring 2015, "What was Made for Weathering" features a painting of a house he once lived in that was made of barge-wood that floated down the Mississippi river. Since they couldn't send the barges back upriver for repeat use at the time, they were often disassembled and the wood repurposed and turned into shotgun houses. What was a boat can become a house. What was a house can be lost, or turned into something else entirely: songs of loss, hope, love, change and transformation. What Was Made for Weathering fuses jazz and singer-songwriter faire into a beautiful, unique sound. (Austin Chronicle) - Self-produced, Grant Johnson of FatFuse Music (Dana Falconberry, Raina Rose, Abram Shook) engineered and mixed it, while Janie Cowan (Bob Hoffnar’s Mood Illusion, Rey Ortega) played bass, and Aaron Parks (Ben Balmer, Mente Clara) played drums. Wilson's guitar work live and on the album is "incomparable- falling somewhere in between jazz, prog, folk, and good old rock’n’roll- his lyrical content erudite, and just as varied…" (Jack Wilson)