Jim Wilson is an American

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 guitarist

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 in the band Mother Superior

Mother Superior (band)

Mother Superior is a Los Angeles based rock band, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Jim Wilson, bassist Marcus Blake and drummer Matt Tecu. In addition to playing live with the Rollins Band and U2 producer Daniel Lanois, the band has done session work with Daniel Lanois, Henry Rollins, Tony...

, and previously in the Rollins Band

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. He is a professional musician known for his soulful vocals and powerful blues-rock guitar work. He also plays guitar and bass with Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

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. Wilson hails from Delaware, but currently resides in Los Angeles

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, California

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.

Biography

A founder member of the blues rock trio Mother Superior who as a band have worked with Lemmy, Queens of the Stone Age

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, Alice Cooper

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, Meat Loaf

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, Emmylou Harris

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, Anthrax

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, Wayne Kramer

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, George Clinton

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, and Iggy Pop

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. They were also approached by Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

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 in 1999 and asked to become 3/4 of the Rollins Band

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, an offer which they accepted. Mother Superior has released their eighth studio album Three Headed Dog in 2007. Along with the other members of Mother Superior, Wilson has recorded and appeared with Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

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 in 2006, 2007, and 2011.

Wilson has also made live appearances with Sparks

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, notably in 2008 during the Sparks Spectacular, where they played each of their twenty one albums in its entirety over twenty one nights in London.

Discography

Mother Superior

Release Date	Title	Label	Notes
1993	Right in a Row	None	Self produced eight song recording
1996	The Heavy Soul Experience The Heavy Soul Experience The Heavy Soul Experience is the first full-length studio album from Mother Superior. It features the original Wilson-Blake-Mackenroth line-up.- Track listing :#"Can Ya Hear Me?" – 5:10 #"Way Tin Onya" – 3:18 #"Sneakin" – 3:26...	Top Beat Records
1997	Kaleidescope	Top Beat Records
1998	Deep	Top Beat Records	Japanese version 1999 - Crown Records Crown Records -Modern Records subsidiary:One Crown Records was a Budget Albums record label founded as a subsidiary of Modern Records.-Singles:* 19??: "Musso's Boogie" b/w "Sing Sing Sing" * 19??: "???" b/w "???" * 19??: "???" b/w "???"...
2001	Mother Superior	Triple X Records
2002	Sin Sin (album) Sin is the fifth studio recording from Mother Superior and the first of two to be produced by MC5 legend Wayne Kramer.- Track listing :#"Strange Change" – 4:26 #"Talk to the Future" – 4:44#"Pretty in the Morning" – 3:16...	Muscletone Records	Euro version 2003 - Fargo
2004	13 Violets 13 Violets (album) - Euro Version :Please note the European release differs from the U.S. version.*Tracks appear in a different order.*"Starlett" and "What if" replace "Everybody Wants" and "Everything is Alright"....	Top Beat Records	Euro version 2004 - Fargo
2005	Moanin	Bad Reputation	First record with Matt Tecu on drums.
2007	Three Headed Dog	Rosa Records

With Rollins Band

Release Date	Title	Label	Notes
2000	Get Some Go Again Get Some Go Again Get Some Go Again is the sixth full-length studio album by Rollins Band, released in 2000 . It is also the first album by lead singer Henry Rollins after dissolving his longtime lineup featuring guitarist Chris Haskett and others...	DreamWorks DreamWorks Records DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...	The single "Get Some Go Again Get Some Go Again Get Some Go Again is the sixth full-length studio album by Rollins Band, released in 2000 . It is also the first album by lead singer Henry Rollins after dissolving his longtime lineup featuring guitarist Chris Haskett and others... " was released in 2000. (B-side A-side and B-side A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...  of "Don't Let This Be").
2000	A Clockwork Orange Stage	2.13.61 Records	Live at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark, July 1, 2000.
2001	Yellow Blues	2.13.61 Records	Out-takes from Get Some Go Again sessions.
2001	Nice	Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
2001	A Nicer Shade Of Red A Nicer Shade of Red A Nicer Shade of Red is a compilation album by the Rollins Band. It was recorded at the same sessions that produced Nice, making it a companion piece to that album, and was released directly by Rollins' 2.13.61 label...	2.13.61 Records	Out-takes from Nice.
2002	The Only Way To Know For Sure	Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...	2 discs. Recorded live at The Metro in Chicago on March 1 & 2, 2002.
2002	Rise Above	Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...	24 Black Flag Black Flag (band) Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band...  songs to benefit the West Memphis Three West Memphis Three The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was...