Who

My name is Wesley Jason Tillett. I was a hyper-active child and was sent outside a lot to play. I grew up with a simple yet wide-eyed zest for nature, people, and God. To this day it is primarily these three things that keep me passionate about life and about music. I especially love spending time outdoors with my wife (Rita) and son (Tobias). (Go to www.thetilletts.blogspot.com to see candid photos of the Tilletts in all their goofy glory).
At the age of 16 my heart was pierced by a strange personal experience of the love of God. It’s a story I’d be glad to share with you sometime, if you really cared to hear it. Suffice to say I became a follower of Jesus Christ. This event came on the heels of an intensely soul-fracturing stint of very deliberately trying to be “cool” in the eyes of my peers. It took me awhile to realize that there is more to life than trying to live up to the world’s fickle opinion of who and what are “cool.” It’s still taking me awhile to be okay with the fact that the world will never think following Jesus Christ is very cool.
But I’m slowly coming to terms with that. I’d like to think my music is an attempt to find a way to be myself in this world. Aside from my delusions of grandeur (of course there is a ton of vanity, selfish-ambition, and mixed motives in everything I do), I am trying to use music as a vehicle to communicate effectively about truth and beauty and other worthwhile things. I believe music’s innate beauty and power should point to God, not self; toward what is eternally true, not what is merely trendy and hip. Therefore the music that I tend to write and truly enjoy flows out of and into my relationship to God. My prayer in all of this is that my music will somehow help you in your own journey towards God. If it does that in even the tiniest way, then I will believe that my often self-humiliating efforts have not been totally in vain.

I have been criticized for not wearing shoes while I mow the lawn. So far I still have all my toes. But I do admit that mowing the lawn bare-footed is pretty stupid.
Me playing guitar in the fields.
My 2005 release. I did a lot of experimenting on this album. I guess I had to start somewhere. I still like how the song "Think Beyond" turned out.