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Caroline Duke is a dark pop singer/songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden. She started writing songs at a very young age and began recording demos in her bedroom by age 16. Her debut EP Lovers and Madmen was released in 2016 (written by Caroline Duke. Produced by Dino Medanhovic). Everytime You Walk Away is the first single of the […]

We’ve featured the music of Eric Anders on our site multiple times over the past year. It only makes sense that we would invite him to join us for this in-depth, exclusive interview during our Mid Tenn Listens Podcast.

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Check out our previous Eric Anders features while you listen. You can find them here and here (opens in new tab).

***A few changes since Eric and I did this interview.  Eric’s next release will be called “True September Songs,” not “Home,” as he said in the interview.  Also, True September Songs, Eric’s ninth release, will be produced by Jeff Peters.  Since Mark O’Bitz did so much of the work on this 2018 full-length release, Eric and Mark decided to release it as a duo, so another big change.  Eric and Mark expect it will be out in the spring of 2018.

Interview Transcript

Where are you from and what style of music do you create? (In your own words, not necessarily in marketing terms or by popular genre classifications.)

Hi Joshua and thanks to you and to Middle Tennessee Music for doing this interview and for your excellent past reviews.

With regard to where I am from, I am a third generation Californian but did most of my growing up elsewhere, particularly on the east coast in DC, upstate New York and Rhode Island.

My music is pretty traditionally American singer-songwriter. I grew up listening to Neil Young, CSNY, The Doors, Creedence, James Taylor and Paul Simon.  Of course, since I was born in the sixties, I also listened to a lot of British music too: the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Cat Stevens, and, of course, the Beatles.  A lot of Beatles. Pretty standard fare.  Nothing very unique for my generation.  I think you can hear these influences in my music.

What led you down this path of music and what motivates you to stay the course?

At the ripe age of 37, in 2002, I had earned a English PhD a couple years before and was training to be a psychoanalyst.  Around that time I started getting into singing and was lucky enough to meet guitarist and songwriter Mark O’Bitz.  Mark encouraged me to try to write some songs with him, and before we knew it we had almost twenty songs written together.  More than twenty would follow and they keep coming, I am glad to say.

I don’t play a musical instrument.  My job with all my collaborators is to come up with the melodies and write the lyrics.  I have collaborated with several other guitar players, but I continue to work with Mark most successfully and probably 70% of the songs I have co-written on my eight releases were written with Mark.

In fact, Mark and I have been working together a lot lately.  We collaborated on 100% of the songs on my upcoming ninth release, which will simply be called “Home.”  I hope to release this full-length album  in early 2018.  Mark and I will be headed to Seattle soon to record this new project with Matt Emerson Brown, my producer since 2006.  We will be using the same studio we used to record my most recent release, Eleven Nine.  The studio is Electrokitty in Wallingford, and we hope to gather most of the same musicians we had on Eleven Nine, especially:

http://www.electrokitty.com/

The violin and engineering skills of Garratt Reynolds,

Jeff Fielder on electric guitar,

Andrew Rudd on drums,

Stephen Baldock on bass,

We’ve featured the music of Eric Anders on our site multiple times over the past year. It only makes sense that we would invite him to join us for this in-depth, exclusive interview during our Mid Tenn Listens Podcast. You can listen to the audio below or read through the transcript if you prefer text. […]

Chris Knudson is a producer of events and media that support Ascension/LightBody consciousness. His latest endeavors include the sound healing and wellness enterprise LightBody LLC and “The Sound Healer with Chris Knudson” a TV series in development.

He has 25 years of experience as a music creator, performer, producer/engineer having lived and worked primarily in Texas, New York City, Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany. He has produced and released records under the Kanude and Val Holler monikers and his music has been featured in HBO’s “True Blood”, ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival in 1998, and on Robert Rodriguez’​ critically acclaimed, low-budget feature film debut “El Mariachi.”​ In his spare time, he chips away at his severe handicap on the golf course and helps his wife Elizabeth raise their two young children.

In this episode of our Mid Tenn Listens podcast, we chat with Kanude aka Chris about influences, challenges, music as healing, what motivates him to keep going, the latest project and much more.

Full audio interview and a stream of Americronica can be found below.

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Chris Knudson is a producer of events and media that support Ascension/LightBody consciousness. His latest endeavors include the sound healing and wellness enterprise LightBody LLC and “The Sound Healer with Chris Knudson” a TV series in development. He has 25 years of experience as a music creator, performer, producer/engineer having lived and worked primarily in […]

The Human Project is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Loyd Vandergriff, who got the nickname “The Human,” in his younger days. He has always loved music and has been influenced by so many artists along the way. He has incorporated many styles into his songs and the result is some bluesy rock and southern rock that his fans simply call..Human Rock. His songs tell vivid stories and get you pattin’ those feet along the way.

In this episode of our Mid Tenn Listens Podcast, Loyd of The Human Project joins us to discuss challenges, the latest project, what keeps him going and more.

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The Human Project is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Loyd Vandergriff, who got the nickname “The Human,” in his younger days. He has always loved music and has been influenced by so many artists along the way. He has incorporated many styles into his songs and the result is some bluesy rock and southern rock that […]

Nehedar is the project of NYC-based singer/songwriter Emilia Cataldo. Since 2007, Cataldo has recorded and collaborated with Little Pioneer in his Brooklyn based studio to create her unique mature, sometimes offbeat and vulnerable sound. Cataldo began performing her original music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and NYC’s Lower East Side in 2003. She released her first album […]

Nehedar is the project of NYC-based singer/songwriter Emilia Cataldo. Since 2007, Cataldo has recorded and collaborated with Little Pioneer in his Brooklyn based studio to create her unique mature, sometimes offbeat and vulnerable sound. Cataldo began performing her original music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and NYC’s Lower East Side in 2003.

She released her first album “Pick Your Battles” in 2007, and then released one album per year, for seven years. After taking a three year hiatus to raise her son, she is back with her full length release, Hello Abyss, which features guitarists Shaul Zuckerberg and Tim Rockmore. While still delivering the genre diversity that Nehedar’s listeners have come to expect – this album, with its spaced out cover art comfortably treats 90’s rock and ’80s electronic music as its musical home base.

Hello Abyss by Nehedar

In this episode of our Mid Tenn Listens podcast, we chat with Nehedar about influences, the new project, being a digital age musician and much more.

You can find her new album, Hello Abyss, on Bandcamp.

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The Karpinka Brothers nostalgic and pastiche songwriting lands the Saskatchewan based folk group in a genre all of their own. Joel Plaskett once described their sound as “Buddy Holly boogie meets Crowded House.” Their fourth album, Talk Is Cheap, is now available. The Karpinka Brothers will be touring North America in support of Talk Is […]