Episode 15b: Will Newsome - "Eddie and the Cruisers"

Moving Music

PART 2

Chances are you have been affected by an artist that burned out, rather than faded away; the bright promise of a star that quickly emitted too much light. The pain kept within an artist that influenced the rise can assist in the fall. But what happens when an artist is smothered by expectations and not allowed to evolve? When Eddie Wilson from our next film, “Eddie and the Cruisers”, takes the chance to expose his progression only to be rejected, his solution to the dilemma creates a mystery decades in the making.

The day Moving Music launched its first episode with Shaun Booker, Ty and I wanted to share a drink and a good time in celebration. We met at the Turtle Creek Tavern on an unusually warm February Friday night. The band playing that night, The Martini Affair, left me wanting to interview them all. Fourteen episodes later Will Newsome, the guitarist for that band, sits down with us for an epic two part discussion on life, the business, and his film that moved him, “Eddie and the Cruisers”.

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Rated PG