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has something to say about either my live shows or my CD. I'll put them
here when I am not too embarrassed by them.
An article in the Iowa State Daily A Review in the Iowa Entertainer From Ethos magazine; Finally, the good music starts. "Eric" is a middle-aged man with a guitar. He plays his guitar wonderfully and sings about "the American national pastime - surfing for porn." This is a guy singing really witty songs about porn, boy bands and commercial radio. Yes! Unfortunately, he runs off before I can get to him. Damn. An interview from The Duluth Reader Weekly (it’s long so it gets it’s own page) An interview about my punk days on the Iowa Underground website. And some comments from folks about the first CD. It is so cool...if I close my eyes...I'm at the Club 47 in Harvard Square in the early 60's..... Anyway, a distinctive voice, a little humor mixed in, guitar playing at least good enough not to distract from the songs - - hell, just add a little more twang and we'll throw you onto the alt-country heap! You have some of the same sort of darkness as Richard Thompson. (this one still boggles my mind and as I write more and more funny stuff is probably wildly innaccurate - E) Listening to "bang your bald spot', i felt that i was being taken on a ride ... it has a quirkiness that people like that look for. Who'da thought I'd like it??!! Amazing! Well done, m'dear, indeed, but you didn't sign the liner, you piker - what value will it have at my grandchildren's ebay estate sale without that? By the way, nice first album. You are hell bent on mastering the essentially useless art of songwriting... Just thought you should know i was in the living room the other day, picked up your cd and decided to give it a listen. i thought it was pretty tight. especially the one about suing blockbuster.....those bastards..... anyway, i give the cd 4 stars. muy bien. Your curmudgeonly persona works splendidly in your comic pieces, and your sweet, sensitive, kind, quirky, playful self shines in your wistful songs. I think us curmudgeonly 40-something year-olds should stick together. So lets... Product May Be Hot, huh....? Very nice. Very, very nice.. I am jealous of this topic. |
And some
comments from folks about the second CD.
Speaking of "issues", the characters in your songs seem to have plenty: fat, furry, old, cosmetic surgery, looking like llamas, doing crank, etc, etc. Works of fiction, or windows into the writer's tormented soul? Only your hairdresser knows for certain. you actually touched a sentimental nerve with that song about an old girlfriend leaving, never to see her again. <> isn't that cool how you reached across the miles like that? it's magical. undeniable truth in songs. <> can't buy that stuff, mister. (Personal stuff cut out in the <>’s) These are some of the best lyrics I've heard in years. Your voice isn't as I'd thought it would sound...it's more soft and ironic...but it suits the songs really well. Some made me laugh and some touched me. An excellent collection of songs. You have expressed my angst in song. (The CD) makes me want to move back to Boston and start drinking again. Stop being so damned hard on yourself in song or you'll never get laid! And some comments about his live shows. Eric Coleman performed hilarious satire (losing an argument with his kids over which generation's music is worse). (from a review of the Highway 61 Folks Festival) He really was quite a charismatic and entertaining performer with quite a stage personality. He writes quite a lot of good songs, some satirical and some very touching. He reminded me of Loudon Wainwright III a bit, but, he definitely still had his a style of his own. He's fat, he's furry, he's middle-aged. That sounds like a lot of us. He's also a fine observational comedian and writes good songs. it's not fair for him to sing angsty songs to entice women when he is happily married and has three kids! he's hot in the same way tom smith is hot... Eric Coleman started the show off with a bang. Before the show started, the audience was pretty tiny, but Eric brought them in like the pied piper of comedy music. His style is nice and loose, starting and stopping the songs with ease to make great comments. The audience totally dug him and so did we. We forgot we were on after him...we were so into his show. He has a grasp of the world many would never understand. | |