In one of those curious brushes with genius that sometimes occur when one works retail in a big city, last year Eli Anderson (aka Seattle’s Sexiest Record Store Employee) and I met Wilson while working at Sonic Boom records. He purchased a copy of the 5-CD archival gospel collection Goodbye Babylon (making him one of only two Sonic Boom customers to shell out the $100+ for it during my tenure - the other was R.E.M.’s Peter Buck). He was funny and cordial, and nattily attired in a light-colored suit and (if memory serves correctly) a straw hat.