Member Since: 3/20/2008
Band Website: ericerskine.com
Band Members: ALL CD'S AVAILABLE NOW ON iTUNES......................................................
My partner in crime when I perform most of the time is Cliff Wilson Jr. Cliff and I met a few years ago when I was performing solo. I asked him if he wanted to join me for a song or two and we have been playing together ever since. Cliff is an amazing harmonica and conga player. You can hear him play on my cover of "Ice Cream Man" as well as my song "Real Love" Both of these songs can be heard on my new CD "Thinking Out Loud"
All of my CD's are available @ ericerskine.com and cdbaby.
Influences: I'm a product of the 80's for better or worse. I was influenced by bands like The Police, U2 and Dire Straits but also by singer/songwriters like Billy Joel, Dan Fogelberg, John Mellencamp, Steve Perry and Sting................ "How Fragile We are"
Sounds Like:November -
by Bennie Green__________Eric Erskine has been around, literally, having done the singer / songwriter and top 40 bit on the West Coast as well as in these parts. The result is a nicely rounded songwriting touch and a super vocal presentation that occasionally rings of Dan Fogelberg in each of their upper registers.The songs are in fact so good that a publishing deal alone would make Erskine a household name. " The Ballad of Martha Brown " perfectly evokes the sad spectacle of people obliviously growing old, then becoming expendable to even the people closest to them. I can hear any number of country or pop crooners, male or female, singing the ready-to-fall-in-love-again song " Isn't It Time " in front of some poignant video backdrop. Likewise "Innocent Eyes," written to a child about grief sure to come.Really, it's rare in Maine or anywhere else to find a guy like Erskine, whose voice is pure and whose songwriting is the envy of those who don't have the knack. November is so good that we'll even allow that the total lack of credits might be due to the fact that our copy was a cassette dub. Remember the name................
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