eTown Presents David Wilcox

Sat Feb 14 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm UTC-07:00

1535 Spruce St, Boulder, CO, United States, Colorado 80302 | Boulder

eTown
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eTown Presents David Wilcox
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Doors: 6 p.m.
Show: 7 p.m.
All Ages Welcome
No Refunds or Exchanges
With every eTown ticket purchase, you're supporting the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. eTown donates $1 per ticket to Conscious Alliance, aiding hunger relief, youth programs and sustainable solutions for the Oglala Lakota Nation.
There are songwriters who chronicle life, and then there’s David Wilcox—an artist who metabolizes it. He has long been a quiet force in American folk music; a musician’s musician, a writer’s writer and a seeker whose gift lies in making the personal feel universal.
With the release of The Way I Tell the Story (2025), David proves, yet again, that resilience isn’t just a survival skill—it’s an art form. The record shimmers with musical sophistication but leaves just enough space for the listener to feel what David has always done best: tell the truth, gently but without apology.
The music he’s creating now comes from a place that can’t be faked. In recent years, David’s life has been shaped by his wife’s Parkinson’s diagnosis—a shift that reordered his priorities and redefined his sense of time, love and presence. But rather than retreat, David leaned in. “Times get tough, and music gets good,” he says, and means it. These songs don’t dramatize. They don’t resolve neatly. They sit in the complexity of living—open-eyed, unafraid, quietly brave.
David’s career began in earnest in the late 1980s when his self-released debut The Nightshift Watchman caught the attention of A&M Records. His major-label debut, How Did You Find Me Here (1989), became an unexpected hit, selling over 100,000 copies largely by word of mouth and live shows alone—an unheard-of feat for a debut folk record. Critics took note of his deft guitar work and emotional clarity, but it was the unassuming wisdom threaded through his lyrics that truly set him apart. Rolling Stone praised his “soulful insight” while The New York Times called his music “a kind of open-hearted therapy.”
What followed was a string of acclaimed albums—Big Horizon (1994), Turning Point (1997), What You Whispered(2000)—each one refining his reputation as a songwriter who knows how to say hard things in soft, lasting ways. Over the years, he’s shared stages and collaborations with artists like Shawn Colvin, Patty Larkin, Pierce Pettis and John Gorka—fellow craftspeople committed to song over spectacle. But David has never followed the current. He’s followed the work, and in 2018 he won top honors in the 23rd annual USA Songwriting for his effervescent “We Make the Way by Walking” from his album, The View From the Edge.
That work has earned him quiet but enduring respect. His songs have been covered by k.d. lang and Tony Rice; his guitar work studied by those who understand that precision, when rooted in care, becomes its own kind of virtuosity. His influence runs deep, especially among younger artists trying to build something real in a world obsessed with surface.
David’s music still resonates, especially now, because it doesn’t try to outpace the moment. It meets it. In his world, craft is a form of care. Introspection is a public offering. And staying soft in a hard world isn’t a liability—it’s a kind of leadership.
For audiences seeking something more than noise, more than nostalgia, David’s songs remain a rare kind of company. Not flashy. Not loud. Just deeply, generously alive.
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