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Erik Mattsson

Lover - you gotta change your way

About Me



I make music for closed eyes. I like flows and open spaces, but I also like the sweet humming inside my head. You might want to have something more concrete: my music isn't miles away from DAMIEN JURADO, GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS and IRON & WINE or fellow Swedes such as KRISTOFFER ÅSTRÖM and JOSE GONZALES.

I released an ep in 2006 called One-Horse Town, and in september 2007 I released a new collection of songs called En Attendant.

Please visit me and my friends over at WILD GEESE MUSIC where you can download a bunch of tracks for free. (Recently updated, with a cover of "Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush...)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/16/2006
Band Website: wildgeesemusic.com
Band Members: Erik Mattsson - vocals, harmonies, guitar, banjo, bass, drums, piano, pump organ, percussion, glockenspiel
Influences: The Band, Crazy Horse, Neil Young, David Crosby, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Henry Thomas, The Carter Family, The Staple Singers, Big Bill Broonzy, Nicolai Dunger, David Sandstrom Overdrive, Hell on Wheels, Michael Bach, Birds of Passage, The John Walker Project, Jason Molina, Magnolia Electric Co, Songs:Ohia, M Ward, Richard Buckner, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Mark Lanegan, Will Oldham, Jackson Browne, R.L. Burnside, Television, Patti Smith, Mudhoney, Meat Puppets.
Sounds Like: a hedonistic welfare system
Type of Label: None