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Erica Buettner

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About Me

Welcome! My name is Erica Buettner. I’m an American singer-songwriter currently living in Paris, where I’m preparing a first album, produced by the wonderful French songwriter and arranger Pierre Fa (myspace.com/pierrefa and myspace.com/peppermoon).I perform solo as well as with a band. My band members are Stefanos Kotsanis (accordion, clarinet, mandolin, piano) and cellist Conrad Steel.We also collaborate with singer-songwriter Liam Carey as members of his band Secondstar.These songs are my version of a traveler's log and are influenced by the folk styles of several different cultures. The texts are explorations that usually revolve around one or two themes or images, articulating the impressions that I have by looking at the same subject from various angles.My personal influences are songwriters who search for a sense of harmony between what is being said and how it is being said. I’m very interested in spoken word poetry for the same dynamic between words and live energy.Stay tuned, there’s more coming…

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Member Since: 5/2/2006
Band Members: Erica Buettner: vocals, guitar, banjo, flute / Stefanos Kotsanis: accordion, piano, clarinet, mandolin / Conrad Steel: cello
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Simon and Garfunkel, Jeff Buckley, Aimee Mann
Sounds Like: ophelian daydreams
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Body Electric Lyrics

I SING the Body electric;The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the char...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:42:00 PST

True Love and Water Lyrics

True Love and WaterLet's go up the hill and fetch a pail of waterWe'll hold it to the lips of all the sons and daughtersYour parents called you Jack, my parents called me JillThey've given us the pail...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:24:00 PST

Time Traveling lyrics

Time TravelingCrying won't get you a dime,but you won 't get a dime without crying,life's greatest balancing act is to sell fewer tears than you're buying,at the fountains of sorrowyou don't make...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:10:00 PST

Le Perroquet Bleu avec PIERRE FA le 19 juin

Hello folks,       It's my pleasure to announce my next concert, June 19th, at the Perroquet Bleu.  A familial and charming theater located at the mysterious 0, rue darwi...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:08:00 PST

When It Goes Lyrics

I'm beginning to post some lyrics in my blogs, so here are the lyrics to the latest song that I put up, called When It Goes. In a few days, I'll add the lyrics to Time Traveling, True Love and Water,...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:52:00 PST

Telerama Review

Hello, welcome to my first blog! It is one of those rare sunny daysin Paris, and I have had the pleasure this morning to wake up to areview in the Telerama newsletter. Thank you to Francois Gorin fo...
Posted by Erica Buettner on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:10:00 PST