Scottish singer, composer and voiceover artist.  TV/radio presenter.  Singer on multi award-winning Disney Pixar film 'Brave'.  Addicted to the Scottish outdoors, and this comes through in the music...

Dan Wilson is best known as the lead singer of the band Semisonic, for which he wrote the Grammy-nominated smash "Closing Time" as well as other international hits including "Secret Smile" and "Chemistry."  Prior to that, he was a member of the band Trip Shakespeare, whose longhaired psychedelia influenced a generation of Midwestern bands long after their breakup in the early 90s. Since Semisonic, Wilson has released three solo albums: Free Life (produced with Rick Rubin), Live at the Pantages, and Love Without Fear.  He has also become a highly sought-after songwriting collaborator, working with a diverse group of artists which also includes: Adele, the Dixie Chicks, Carole King, Pink, Dierks Bentley, Birdy, Spoon, John Legend, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jim James, Taylor Swift, Nas, Josh Groban, Weezer, and many others.

We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides -- pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot. We stood near a grove of trees and watched the photographers. Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book. 

"No one sees the barn," he said finally. 

A long silence followed. 

"Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn."

He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced by others.

We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies." 

There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides. 

"Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. It literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism." 

Another silence ensued. 

"They are taking pictures of taking pictures," he said.

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Jon Gomm is an independent, non-corporate musician. He sings songs, writes songs, and plays guitar, and spends a lot of his time travelling around playing gigs. He's basically just trying to be an individual in a world that wants everything to sound the same. He's not famous, but don't worry he doesn't want to be, and you've heard of him and that means a lot. 

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