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Erik Karlsson

Musical Pilgrim

About Me

Do you like this music? Then check out my official site: http://www.erikkarlsson.com for full FREE CD downloads and much more information!!!

Pop, folk, adult alternative - call it what you want, but this acoustic musician is a dynamic performer armed with stirring and original lyrics. Even his cover tunes are unusual and yet enjoyable. Check him out around the Kansas City area.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/13/2006
Band Website: erikkarlsson.com
Influences: Ellis Paul, Josh Ritter, Harry Chapin, Dana Cooper, David Wilcox, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, Eliza Gilkyson, Patty Griffin, Trout Fishing in America
Sounds Like: Ellis Paul, David Wilcox, Trout Fishing in America, James Taylor
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Plain Great Stuff

I don't spend a ton of time on MySpace, but this guy sent me a friend add today and wow...I am blown away by his stuff. Give him a listen if you get a chance. Very nice, intelligent pop.  http://...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:23:00 PST

You really want to be at erikkarlsson.com

While I've put a new song here on MySpace (The World Wasn't Ready For You), I have now made my most recent CD "Forty Something" freely downloadable on my website at http://www.erikkarlsson.com . Downl...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:00:00 PST

New Tune! Girl on the Run

This tune was foisted upon the song circle a couple of months ago - a sort-of tongue-in-cheek look at a poor guy who is plainly hopelessly in love. The fantastic backing guitar on this is performed by...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PST

I’m number one....right now...

I posted a few songs over on the VERY cool web-radio site Folk Alley yesterday. They have this area called Open Mic that is pretty neat - lots of interesting music to listen to by non-signed acts. And...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:23:00 PST

MySpace Glitch

So my new song was just sitting in limbo this morning when I took a look to see if it ever made it onto my site. I just deleted it and reloaded it and WHAM, it showed up immediately. Go figure. So, th...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:19:00 PST

Trying To Fill The Great Big Empty

MySpace song names  have a max number of characters shorter than the name of the new song I've posted tonight! Nonetheless, I decided to put it up anyway. This is one of the new songs I wrote wit...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:49:00 PST

Gibson Love

I've been writing new stuff on an old Gibson J40 I have. Its life under my care has been a rather bizarre story of tragedy and phoenix-like brilliance. I traded a couple of old keyboards for the guita...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST

Wrapped In Wonder

A new song! Whoopee! I reworked an old Gibson J40 guitar I have and it has become one of my favorite guitars to play all of the sudden when things finally came all together with it, so I've been writi...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:03:00 PST

Don’t forget http://www.erikkarlsson.com

MySpace is great...but it is terribly lacking in audio quality with these samples. If you want to hear full-quality versions of my music, you can go to my main web site at http://www.erikkarlsson.com ...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:47:00 PST

CD "Awards" from a musical friend!

I think this review of my recent CD in an "award presentation" format to be wonderfully hilarious. I also find it appropriate that at the time the reviewer wrote this, he didn't know that I didn't do ...
Posted by Erik Karlsson on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:11:00 PST