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Erik Alan Mallory

Kick Them Blues!

About Me

Erik Mallory began playing guitar late in life (at 26). But managed to steep himself in country, blues, and 60’s rock while juggling, jobs, career changes and school. He’s been kickin’ it home style, every now and again He’ll play a show.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2006
Band Members: Erik Alan Mallory
Influences: Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Reverend Gary Davis, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, G Love, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Steve Cropper, Townes Van Zandt, Chris Isaac, The Shins, Big Star, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Prince, KRS-ONE, Mark Lanegan, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Clutch, Danny Gatton, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Earl, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Merle Travis and many more!
Sounds Like: Whatever you say..
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Album: Low Hanging Fruit

I got all 10 tracks done and sent the disc off last night, I had some techincal problems that ate up some time so the last song to get recorded is not up to par, but I was going to be damned if I didn...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:34:00 PST

Almost there

I have been busting my ass ever spare moment I get to complete the challenge. I have one more song that has yet to be written, two that need to be hammered out, one that needs some retracking, and six...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:02:00 PST

The process so far

Thank god Angie loves me because any other woman would have been right pissy with me. I spent all weekend working on the RPM challenge songs, playing the guitar is the easy part, its all the other stu...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

February

This Month I'm coming out of musical hibernation. And nothing like a goal to make you get off your dead ass and do something The RPM Challenge http://www.rpmchallenge.com is a contest to against yours...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:49:00 PST

On Practice: A letter to Nick

No real musician really practices, we're born with a gift, that's why record labels don't want to pay us "fairly" Its not really work. Now PR for Brittany Spears... shit that's a _hard_ job... you nee...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:32:00 PST

Womanly Ways

This song has been written for a looooooooong time now. It began life as a fast 4/4 Stevie style tune. Somehow that didn't seem to fit. It was a dirty song.. It needed to take its time, oooze out of ...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:38:00 PST

Old Stuff: Winning at Poker & Ballad of the '71

Both of these songs were written and recorded in 1999, I had started playing guitar in 1998. Busted my ass to get them "right". They were recorded on a Boss BR8 in my one bedroom apartment durring the...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:33:00 PST

Up and Comming

For the past year or so I have been working on The Swipes project, which is a lovely simple rock n' roll kinda thing. I love playing in that band but I have a need to explore my roots, and my top most...
Posted by Erik Alan Mallory on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:04:00 PST