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About Me

Earlwine has returned to the Austin area after an extended foray to the respective coasts of America. His music represents a cultural stew of American influences, spanning from deep blues traditions to country to hip-hop and ambient electronica. Though his music defies easy categorization, a sense of gravitas and reckoning colors every song. Manifold stylistic influences bubbling up from the continuous wellspring of American musical idioms continue to influence his songwriting and production.After a stint in San Francisco playing drums, guitar, banjo and accordion with a series of bands, Earlwine stopped back in Texas to record his album "Songs for the New Depression," an independently produced album characterized by gutbucket beats, found vintage electronics and the dirty, dirty blues, prompting comparisons to Beck, Tom Waits and even Dire Straits.In New York, Earlwine played a series of gigs as his alter-ego "Ben Ratliff" (not the writer for the New York Times). He developed a more acoustic sound while playing local venues like Fez, Makor, Arlene's Grocery and other popular New York establishments. After recording the bulk of his second complete solo album "Low Frequency Hum," he returned to his home of Austin, Texas in 2007 to release it on aMerkin.com.

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Member Since: 8/9/2004
Band Website: amerkin.com
Band Members: me
Influences: Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Hank Williams, Sr., Howlin' Wolf, Neil Young Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, White Stripes, Rolling Stones, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, PJ Harvey, Beck, Social Distortion, X, John Hiatt, Liz Phair, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nat "King" Cole, Patsy Cline
Sounds Like: Tom Waits, Beck, Leonard Cohen, Dire Straits, Link Wray, Eric Clapton Â»-(Â¯`vÂ´Â¯)-Â» Design your MySpace with MyLook Â«-(Â¯`vÂ´Â¯)-Â«
Record Label: www.amerkin.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

What's With the Name Change?

OK, so some o youse may be wondering what's happening with the name change? What can I say? It was time. My name is all used up. That guy from the New York Times was the first one. Now some guy ...
Posted by Earlwine on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:01:00 PST

Holy Shit Somebody Read My Blog

Shocked to find somebody read my blog, and even made fun of me for not posting enough. Well, now that Kenball is copyediting my thoughts, i guess I better mind my p's and q's. What happened is that ...
Posted by Earlwine on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:06:00 PST

When I Woke Up

Does anybody read these things? If you blog and nobody reads your post, is it a blog? I haven't been drinking much in January, which, as any boozer will tell you, does funny things to your sleep p...
Posted by Earlwine on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:22:00 PST

Shows in Williamsburg

hey ya'll --If any of you live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, come on out to my gigs! I'll be playing Galapagos on North Six on Oct. 5 with my band The Muscatels. The Saucers, a very groovy band, will be ...
Posted by Earlwine on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I Met You Once

Or maybe I didn't. But we can say that we did meet at some random party on a Brooklyn rooftop. But you've never been to Brooklyn? Perhaps it was just somebody who looked like you. In this mo...
Posted by Earlwine on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hello?

I just signed up this My Space, so i don't really know anything about it, but i guess it was recommended to me by certain people who thought it was cool. Anyway, I tour to different cities on the Eas...
Posted by Earlwine on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST