Will Wood

Will Wood is an American musician from New Jersey. When in a studio or performing live with a band, he is usually accompanied by "the Tapeworms", which includes Mike Bottiglieri on guitar, Matt Berger on saxophone, Mario Conte on drums, and Vater Boris on bass. Before forming "Will Wood and the Tapeworms", he was performing with other bands, such as Jamface, Strange Thick, A Verbal Equinox and The Stereosexuals. He also performs by himself. His live shows include a mix of music, talking, and comedy.

Will Wood
Will Wood performing live in 2018 (Roxy and Duke's Roadhouse, Dunellen, NJ)
Background information
Genres	Indie folk pop jazz rock and roll avant-pop punk rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, filmmaker, artist, comedian
Instruments	Piano vocals ukulele guitar
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Say-10
Members	Will Wood Mike Bottiglieri Matt Berger Vater Boris Mario Conte Rob Schaefer
Past member(s)	Dan Chetnik James Horvath Ben Scardo Thomas Finch David Higdon Matt Olson Jonathon Maisto
Website	www.willwood.net

Style

Wood's style of piano often changes from one song to the next, drawing from folk, pop, jazz, rock and roll, latin music, and Klezmer, which is the traditional music of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.

Body of Work

Wood has released 7 albums since 2015, Everything is a Lot (2015), Self-Ish (2016), The Normal Album (2020) "In case I make it," (2022), 2 live albums, The Real Will Wood (2020) and IN CASE I DIE (2023), and a remix album The New Normal (Normal Album 2024 Edit) (2024).^[1] He has also written music for the podcast, Camp Here and There.

He also directed "The Real Will Wood", a part mockumentary, part documentary ^[2] film promoting his live tour, as well as the documentary following the stages of production for "The Normal Album", called "What Did I Do? (The Making of the Normal Album)"^[3]

Will also takes part in a comedy podcast called "Life in the World to Come" with Chris Dunne.

Personal life

Will doesn't like to share details of his personal life and avoids social media. ^[4]During old live shows and interviews, he would play a distasteful and high energy character and often lie about his personal life, including about having a daughter named Millie after Eleven from Stranger Things.

Will is very open with past struggles with drug addiction and mental illness. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder early in his career and donates large amounts of live show performances to mental health charities.^[4]

Discography[5][6]

Studio Albums

• Everything is a Lot (2015) ^{[Album Refrences 1]}
• SELF-iSH (2016) ^{[Album Refrences 1]}
• The Normal Album (2020)
• "In case I make it," (2022)

Live Albums

• The Real (2018)^{[Album Refrences 1][Album Refrences 2]}
• IN CASE I DIE: (Live) (2023)

Soundtrack Albums

• Camp Here and There (Original Series Soundtrack) (2021)
• Camp Here and There Soundtrackː Campfire Songs Edition (2022)

Remix Album

• The New Normal! (The Normal Album 2024 Edit) (2024)

1. Released as Will Wood and the Tapeworms
2. Re-released in 2020 as The Real Will Wood (Music from the Award-Winning Concert Film)

Singles

Title	Date	Album
Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture	May 15, 2015	Everything is a Lot
Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia / Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to Fusiform Gyrus)	July 8, 2016	SELF-iSH
Dr. Sunshine is Dead	July 28, 2016	SELF-iSH
2012	August 9, 2016	SELF-iSH
Alma Mater	May 10, 2016	Non-album single
Love, Me Normally	May 29, 2020	The Normal Album
Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)	June 12, 2020	The Normal Album
..Well, Better Than the Alternative	June 26, 2020	The Normal Album
Mr. Fregoli and the Diathesis-Stress Supermodel, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Con (An Untitled Track)	July 7, 2020	Non-album single
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll	September 20, 2021	"In case I make it,"
Your Body, My Temple	January 18, 2022	Camp Here & There
Tomcat Disposables	April 29, 2022	"In case I make it,"
Cicada Days	May 27, 2022	"In case I make it,"
You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)	June 10, 2022	"In case I make it,"
Euthanasia	June 17, 2022	"In case I make it,"
White Noise	July 8, 2022	"In case I make it,"