Erik Balkey

Deadpan Alley

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He's a moody, humorous, down and out, spirited, deadpan, self-conscious singer-songwriter and sloppy poet who isn't comfortable talking about himself in the third person but expects he'll get used to it.

tracks

: 1 So Am I to You
: 2 She Sleeps
: 3 Maria
: 4 Goodnight Lily
: 5 Nowhere Fast
: 6 I'm Lonely Tonight
: 7 Birches
: 8 Have Mercy On the Fallen Soul
: 9 New Olde Town
: 10 Come Back Home
: 11 Angel Says to Me
: 12 The Last Laugh
: 13 River City Folk - Interview

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notes

I writes songs, and I recorded a dozen. So, here they are. I'm also a colorblind housepainter, and a sensitive custom song writer. I write fifty to a hundred songs a year, and some of them aren't too bad. I'm kind of like Greg Brown except that I edit. Not too much 'tho. I mean I'd like to be Leonard Cohen, but I don't have the patience. Maybe I'm like a hundred monkeys at a hundred typewriters typing randomly forever (which will eventually produce both "War & Peace" and the Yankees-Pirates 1960 Game Seven Box score)... and, it's all I can do to keep the monkeys fed and clean the monkey crap.

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Another Great Collection
author: Rob Lincoln
"Poetic" "Sparing" "Dark" "Intimate"--these are some of the adjectives used to describe Erik Balkey's CDs in the past. This one is all that, but add "charming" "fun" and "happy go lucky" as well. Balkey delivers some real winning tunes here. "She Sleeps" and "Goodnight Lily" will have you humming for days. And for you Prine fans, check out "Nowhere Fast." Make sure not to miss the last three songs in the "River City Folk Interview." They are outstanding. This CD is singer-songwriter music at its best. Highly recommended--Rob Lincoln, cdreviewsonline.com