Tuckerton native Brad Wilson has inherited a natural talent for folk art from his ancestors, with roots in the region for upward of 300 years.

The songwriter treats each composition as delicately as his decoy carvings, essentially painting in sound. Rather than a paintbrush, the singer uses his pen, acoustic guitar and piano as his tools to create a romantic still frame into which he places himself as a vocalist.

“I sort of project myself into these scenes,” he described in a previous interview with The SandPaper.

He has written over 60 songs in the last decade, some of which are “long gone,” he shared.