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If this is your first introduction to the songs and recordings of Steve Wynn you have a lot of catching up to do. In 16 years Wynn has released 20 albums and has seen over 200 of his songs recorded. He has played over 1000 shows in more than 25 countries. His songs have been recorded and/or performed by, among others, REM, Luna, Concrete Blonde, The Black Crowes, Yo La Tengo, Possum Dixon and Eleventh Dream Day; his "That's Why I Wear Black" became the #1 single of 1993 in Norway as the leadoff track from the debut album by Somebody's Darling. He has been prominently featured in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, People, The Los Angeles Times, New York Times and countless other publications all over the world.

Or maybe you know Wynn from his groundbreaking work with The Dream Syndicate, a band that--along with REM and the Replacements--practically invented the American indie rock scene of the 1980s. Perhaps you know Wynn from his critically acclaimed solo albums of the 1990s which were fixtures on many Modern Rock radio stations across the country. Or it could be from his highly touted side-project Gutterball which by its fifth gig found itself signed to Mute/Elektra and on a national tour with The Black Crowes.

And maybe you know all of this and have followed Wynn throughout every phase of a consistent, prolific and evolving career. Whatever the case, this compilation serves as an introduction and overview to a body of work that has drawn and impressed so many followers and fans along the way. No two of the intensely devoted and feverish Wynn fans would be able to agree upon the 19 songs that could sum up such an impressive and diverse career and this particular compilation serves only as a starting point from which to understand and appreciate Wynn's career.

Steve Wynn was born in Santa Monica, California in 1960 and got his first guitar (a nylon-string acoustic) when he was nine, shortly after which he wrote his first song "Sing My Blues." He formed his first band The Light Bulbs that same year and the band (the oldest member was ten years old) made the circuit of parties and school functions. By the time he was 13 Wynn had played in bands with such colorful names as Purple Passion and Sudden Death Overtime, alternating between his own early originals and songs by Neil Young, The Rolling Stones and The Who.

In the years that followed Wynn found himself sidetracked by a strong desire to become a sportswriter. Abandoning his electric guitar for a notepad, pen and typewriter Wynn found himself on the other side of the interview, speaking to football, basketball and baseball players and dreaming of one day seeing his name on the masthead of Sports Illustrated.

During his high school years, Wynn entertained notions of becoming a sportswriter but the excitement and immediacy of the punk rock explosion of 1977 brought him back into the world of songwriting and performing. He found himself writing and playing guitar for UC Davis (near Sacramento) New Wave pioneers Suspects, a band for whom Wynn wrote over 100 songs, none of which he has performed since. A move back to Los Angeles with Suspects lead singer Kendra Smith was the first step towards the forming of The Dream Syndicate, the band with whom Wynn would gain national and eventually international acclaim.

The Dream Syndicate played together for the first time in December 1981 and within three weeks had recorded its eponymously titled first EP. The record was released in April 1982 and followed six months later by the band's debut album "The Days of Wine and Roses," an album which fans and critics alike still consider one of the best and most important rock albums of all time. Those early years are represented here by "When You Smile" and "That's What You Always Say," songs which have been covered, respectively, by Concrete Blonde and Luna. The band was almost immediately signed by A&M Records for whom it recorded the landmark "Medicine Show" (the title song opens this compilation), a record that was recently named one of the 40 best rock albums of all time by the London Guardian and whose songs have been covered by REM and The Black Crowes among many others.

Several years of worldwide touring (including several trips to Europe and Japan and Australia) followed before the band broke up at the end of 1988. Wynn has said "As proud as I was of The Dream Syndicate, our music and our accomplishments I felt we had reached our peak and everything that followed would have been a disappointment. I wanted to be a band that broke up while we were still doing our best work."

In 1990 Wynn came back with his first solo offering "Kerosene Man," an album of incredible diversity that showed Wynn's enormous growth as a songwriter and record-maker. The songs "Carolyn" and "Tears Won't Help" (both represented here) were among the most-played songs that year on Modern Rock radio stations and his video for "Carolyn" was in regular rotation on MTV for six weeks.

The follow-up "Dazzling Display" (three songs on this compilation) was Wynn's most elaborate production to date, a dizzying synthesis of the best rock music of the previous 30 years featuring the talents of, among others, REM's Peter Buck, Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano and members of The Bangles, The Turtles and the touring bands of Lou Reed and Tracy Chapman.

A four-day writing vacation in Richmond, Virginia with the House of Freaks' Bryan Harvey turned into the side-project supergroup Gutterball who released two albums, garnered overwhelming press response and built a frenetic cult following; the Black Crowes took the band out as its opening act even before the first Gutterball record was released. Not one to stand still Wynn followed the success of Gutterball with the more introspective "Fluorescent," an album whose single "Carelessly" picked up heavy radio play throughout the US and Europe.

In 1994 Wynn moved to New York City and harnessed the excitement and energy of his new home (where he still lives to this day) to recorded "Melting in the Dark" and, what many consider to be his best album "Sweetness and Light," (represented by four songs on this compilation) which was released in 1997 to overwhelming critical response.

In the midst of such a prolific recording career Wynn has still found time to average over 100 shows a year all over the world. He has found himself as welcome in Rome, Oslo, Athens, Brussels, London and Madrid as he has in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston. And for the devoted fans he has made in these and many other cities, this compilation is merely a confirmation of what they already know: that Steve Wynn is one of the most adventurous, accomplished and exciting songwriters of the last few decades. If all of this is still news to you, just put on this cd and get ready to join the legions of people who have enjoyed these and so many other of Wynn's Dazzling Display of songs over the last two decades.

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