James Calvin Wilsey is an American musician. He played bass with San Francisco punk band The Avengers, but become better known as the lead guitarist for Stockton crooner Chris Isaak's band Silvertone. His playing was featured on Isaak's albums Silvertone, Chris Isaak, Heart Shaped World, and San Francisco Days.
It was Wilsey's Fender American Vintage 62 Reissue Stratocaster, and in particular his use of reverb, delay and gentle tremolo, which gave a distinctive 1950s honky tonk/1960s surf sound...
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