Eric Anders

Bay area singer-songwriter

Performing Songwriter Magazine describes Eric's music as "touching on the trance-like ecstasy of David Gray and the deadly seriousness of Nick Drake." His critically acclaimed debut release, "Not At One," came out in 2003, and he has released one CD per year after that: his 3-song political EP "Songs For Wayward Days" in 2004, and his second full-length release "More Regrets" in 2005. Tethered to the Ground is Eric Anders' 2006 full-length release. Produced by Matt Williams and featuring backing vocals by Anna-Lynne Williams, both of the band Trespassers William. Gail Worley, music critic, worleygig.com: With a voice that combines James Taylor's grounded poignancy with Jeff Buckley's complex ethereality, west coast singer-songwriter Eric Anders creates gorgeous, wistful "Sunday morning" music unlike that of any other contemporary artist. The thirteen tunes gracing Anders' brilliant new release, Tethered To The Ground are buoyed by his masterful grasp of song craft and remarkable knack for warm, intricately sculpted arrangements. On standout tracks like the haunting "Earth Rise" and the thinly veiled revenge fantasy "Looking Forward to Your Fall" the singer manages to convey a range of nuanced emotions by foregoing superficial emoting. But it is his nearly-unrecognizable-yet-instantly-familiar cover of the Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun," which transforms the original's spastic jubilation into a ballad on the sweet agony of unarticulated sentiments, that truly separates Anders from his peers and marks him as singular.

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