Eric Christopher

Little Rock, Arkansas
28 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Lyricist

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"i've written a few songs about sinnin'...most of 'em are true."

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Country

Contact

Booking: ericchristophermusic@hotmail.com
Administrative: ericchristophermusic@hotmail.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / electric guitar / mandolin / percussion / vocals

INFLUENCES

roscoe holcomb, tom waits, kris kristofferson, john prine, ramblin' jack elliott, guy clark, townes va zandt, jimmy rodgers, hank williams, woody guthrie, bruce springsteen, a.p. carter, revelations (the bible), freight trains, hangovers (the morning after the night before), heartbreak, long distance pay phone calls.....

I WRITE:

It's my second job

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

"...he sings what he knows. Whether (the songs) are about day to day life, a crazy ex, or a certain county in Kentucky, each song is mature and a pleasure to listen to..." - littlerocklivemusic.net

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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