The Beach Boys soul, Carl Wilson, remembered in bio! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Kent Crowley, author of The Beach Boys Carl Wilson biography, Long Promised Road.
 

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Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who can’t surf but always envision themselves hanging 10 while singing “I Get Around”… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida

Is it fair to call Carl Wilson the “accidental” Beach Boy?

He was the youngest brother – and cousin – in the world’s most enduring and prominent California surf band, the one that probably had other youthful pursuits in mind when older brother Brian recruited him to the band in the early 1960s at age 15.
KENT CROWLEY podcast excerpt: "Murray Wilson, father of Brian, Dennis and Carl, was a very damaged individual. He, too, grew up in an abusive household with an abusive father. So what didn't happen in the Wilson household -- until Carl showed up -- was you never had anyone to break that cycle. That's why there was such an emphasis on Carl Wilson being the caregiver and the caretaker... The one thing that brought that family together was music."
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But the rest of The Beach Boys were lucky he got around – I mean, came around – as Carl eventually became the band’s musical director, lead vocalist and its conscience in the absence of brother Brian.

In his new biography, Long Promised Road: Carl Wilson, Soul of the Beach Boys, writer Kent Crowley tells the story of the Brother who spent much of his life in Brian’s shadow, even when Brian was nowhere in sight for years and years.
KENT CROWLEY podcast excerpt: "Carl started out as a teenager, still in high school, playing surf music. Surf music began as an entry-level style of